In 2019, Emiliano Sala He died after a plane crash that left many doubts and investigations. Five years later, Cardiffthe club that had bought his token, filed a lawsuit before the Nantes Commercial Court – precisely, Nantes owned his pass – by the goals he would have scored on his new team, according to artificial intelligence.
AI reveals how many goals Emiliano Sala would have scored in Cardiff
Five years after his death, Emiliano Sala continues to make people talk. On this occasion, because Cardiff found a way to sue -again- Nantes.
Analytics FC is a company dedicated to artificial intelligence and announced that, with the Argentine on the field, Cardiff would have had a 54.2% chance of avoiding relegation.
This company calculated the expected goals and points earned if Sala had been on the field.
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Cardiff demands Nantes
The case for Emiliano Sala spreads and Cardiff is based on artificial intelligence. The thing is that he lost money and prestige for being relegated and, according to Analytics FC, with the Argentine on the field he would have reduced those possibilities.
That is why the Welsh claim reached the Nantes Commercial Court. Maurice Nussenbaum calculated that Cardiff’s financial loss, due to relegation, reputational damage, among others, was 120 million euros.
Nantes immediately filed a countersuit for “moral damage,” as revealed by L’Equipe.
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The death of Emiliano Sala
Emiliano Sala was playing in Nantes, when Cardiff noticed him and paid 6.8 million euros to keep his record. In a strange scheme to complete his trip to Wales, the Argentine boarded a Piper Malibu, a private plane, but on January 21, the radars lost track of the aircraft in the English Channel.
On January 30, debris was found that was possibly from the small plane, and on February 3 it was confirmed that it was the PIper PA-46 Malibu, registration N264DB. The next day, they found a body in the plane, on February 6 they removed it and on the 7th it was confirmed that it belonged to Emiliano Sala, who was buried on February 16 in the town of Progreso, in Argentina.