Cardiff City’s new signing Emiliano Sala was aboard a small plane that disappeared over the English Channel, the French civil aviation authority has said.
The light aircraft, which had two passengers on board, lost contact on Monday night off the coast of Guernsey as it made the journey from Nantes – where Sala had played since 2015. The 28-year-old striker had spent the previous hours saying farewell to teammates in the French city after Cardiff signed the Argentinian-Italian for a club-record fee, believed to be £15m.
Nantes were due to play Entente Sannois in the French Cup on Wednesday but the third-tier club said it was postponed until Sunday ‘following the disappearance of the plane of former player Emiliano Sala.’

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