Emiliano Sala contract not legally binding, Cardiff to tell FIFA

Cardiff are set to tell FIFA that their £15million signing of
Emiliano Sala from Nantes became ‘null and void’ after his tragic
death.
The Welsh club are yet to pay the transfer fee, and it has now been
reported by the Daily Telegraph that the international governing
body will be told that it was not legally binding.

Sala and pilot David Ibbotson were killed when their Piper
Malibu aircraft crashed near Guernsey on January 21, two days after
the Premier League club had announced him as their record signing
subject to international clearance”.

Last month, Nantes appealed to FIFA after Cardiff failed to meet
the deadline for the first £5m payment, but the French club then
agreed to a delay, with the Bluebirds awaiting a full investigation
into the crash.

Cardiff were set a deadline of April 3 to respond, but the club
are poised to claim that Sala’s contract had been rejected by the
Premier League, making it ‘null and void’ at the time of his
death.

A clerical error in Cardiff’s paperwork involving the player’s
signing-on fee meant that Sala’s registration needed to be
resubmitted, but the Argentine died before he was able to sign the
revised contract.

Cardiff will also tell FIFA that the non-fulfilment of
legally-binding clauses in the transfer agreement they struck with
Nantes for the player made the deal invalid.

Without these clauses being fulfilled, Cardiff will argue that
Sala was perfectly entitled to join another club with more than a
week of the January transfer market remaining.

Cardiff had nothing to do with the plane on which Sala and pilot
David Ibbotson were killed, saying the player had been offered a
commercial flight to travel from France to Wales. A Cardiff
spokesperson said:

” The club is aware of the FIFA request for response by April 3
and is processing that accordingly, we have nothing further to
comment on it at this stage.”
Nantes’ lawyers first wrote to Cardiff on February 5 asking for the
first of three annual payments to be paid within 10 working
days.

The deadline was extended but, with no payment received, Nantes
carried out their threat on February 27 to take the matter to
FIFA’s Dispute Resolution Chamber.

A club spokesperson was quoted in the Daily Telegraph as saying:
“FC Nantes has completed all the required paperwork to complete the
Emiliano Sala transfer. Thus, FIFA registered the International
Transfer Certificate on 21st January 2019 at 5.30pm.

“Nantes is fully compliant with FIFA rules. As for Emiliano
Sala’s registration in the Premier League, FC Nantes has no
information about it. And if it could be a problem for Cardiff, it
is not a problem for Nantes.”

Islamic Dowry for Marriage is now N13,438-
Cleric

An Islamic cleric, Dr AbdulHameed Shuaib Agaka has said that the
current value of the dowry to be paid in lslamic marriage that was
in consonance with Nigeria’s current economy is N13, 438.

Speaking in his weekly Islamic radio programme monitored in
Ilorin, Dr. Agaka said that the payment of dowry was the most
important aspect of an Islamic marriage.

According to the cleric, who was a former Scholar with the
School for Arabic Studies and Bayero University Kano, the marriage
would become invalid and illegal without the dowry being paid.

He said: “The dowry in Islam is paid by the man to his
wife-to-be as an honour and respect given to her to show his
sincerity and commitment to the marriage which also signifies sense
of responsibility and obligation.”

According to him, the acceptable current dowry in any Islamic
marriage in Nigeria’s local currency stands at N13,438, adding that
it is however permissible for wealthy husbands to pay amounts
higher than the official acceptable fee.

The former don said prospective husbands could use cows, parcels
of land, gold and other valuables as payment of dowry for their
intended wives.

He advised Moslem’s to always abide with the validities under
the lslamic marriage to curb cases of unwanted children in the
society.

Dr. Abdulhameed who is also the Chief Imam of Agaka in Ilorin
Emirate of Kwara State, condemned what he described as ostentatious
spending in Islamic marriages, saying that what was most
significant in any Islamic marriage was payment of dowry to the
bride and adequate care and protection after marriage.

“It is only the payment of dowry that guarantees legal access
and full control of wife by the husband,’’ the cleric said.

By PRNigeria