Tag: Nantes
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EPL: Leeds United set to hire Nigerian forward Victor Moses
Leeds United are set to replace departing midfieder Raphinha with Nigerian forward Moses Simon popularly known as daddy. Although, Ligue 1 side Nice are also in the race to snap the Nigerian international
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EPL club offer Super Eagles star £100,000-a-week deal
Premier League club Newcastle are ready to hand Super Eagles star, Moses Simon, a £100,000-a-week contract to join them in the summer. According to OwnGoalNigeria, Newcastle have made Simon, who currently
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Ligue 1: Lyon’s winless streak stretches to seven with Nantes defeat
Olympique Lyonnais’s winless streak stretched to seven games in all competitions on Saturday as they slumped to a 1-0 home defeat to new Ligue 1 leaders Nantes. Nantes prevailed thanks to a 59th minute own goal by Fernando Marcal. The Canaries, with 16 points from eight games, now lead Paris St-Germain (PSG) by one point…
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Emiliano Sala was abandoned by Cardiff, says former agent
Emiliano Sala was “abandoned” by Cardiff City and had to arrange his own travel in a £15m transfer from Nantes, says ex-football agent Willie McKay. McKay’s son Mark was Nantes’ acting agent in the deal for the footballer, who died in a plane crash last month. Willie McKay arranged the flight that crashed in the…
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Emiliano Sala: Nantes hit with fine over flare tributes
French club Nantes have been fined a combined 21,000 euros (18.264 pounds) after supporters set off flares during matches as part of a tribute to former striker Emiliano Sala, who died in a plane crash last month. A single-engine plane carrying Sala from Nantes to his new team Cardiff City crashed on Jan. 21 in…
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Emiliano Sala: Cardiff may sue Nantes over pilot’s licence
Premier League club Cardiff ‘may sue Nantes’ following the death of club record-signing Emiliano Sala. Cardiff have found no proof that the pilot of the plane that crashed in the English Channel had the right licence to fly Sala following an internal investigation, according to the Telegraph. The paper has reported that if the Air…
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Ligue 1: Monaco beat Nantes to move out of relegation zone
Monaco beat Nantes 1-0 to record their second home win of the season in Ligue 1 on Saturday to move out of the relegation zone for the first time since September. Leonardo Jardim’s return as coach at the end of January has sparked a turnaround in fortunes for the principality side. They have now won…
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Emiliano Sala: Nantes to retire no. 9 shirt
Nantes have announced that the club will retire the no.9 shirt, in honour of Emiliano Sala, whose body has been recovered from the wreckage of a plane he was travelling on that crashed on its way to Cardiff. The Ligue 1 outfit says it was as a mark of respect to the Argentine striker, who…
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Police confirms dead body of Emiliano Sala
A body retrieved from the wreckage of a crashed plane in the English Channel has been formally identified as Cardiff City’s Argentina-born football player Emiliano Sala, British police said on Thursday. Sala, 28, had been flying from his previous club Nantes in western France to Wales on Jan. 21. He was going to make his…
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BREAKING: Nantes demand Sala transfer fee from Cardiff
French club Nantes have demanded payment from Cardiff City over the £15m transfer of Emiliano Sala, BBC Wales has learned. Sala, along with pilot David Ibbotson, was on board the Piper Malibu N264DB which lost radar contact near Guernsey on 21 January. The Argentine striker was Premier League club Cardiff’s record signing. Cardiff have withheld…