Emiliano Sala family ‘in danger’ of missing £600k compensation payout after Cardiff’s error registering player before he died

EMILIANO SALA’S family could miss out on £600,000 in compensation because Cardiff failed to register his contract with the Premier League.

According to the Times, players automatically become part of the PFA’s pension scheme once as they are registered with the top flight organisation.

And the PFA’s death-in-service payment to families is valued at £600,000.

The Professional Footballers’ Association is reportedly pursuing the pension fund for them to honour the payment, even though he was not registered with the Premier League.

Cardiff made an error in their paperwork when registering the player and the league handed the forms back to the club, asking them to clarify details and re-submit them over the £15million deal.

That required Sala to re-sign documents, but he was tragically never able to before he died on January 21 when his light aircraft crashed into the English channel en route from Nantes to Cardiff.

As SunSport reported today, Sala’s transfer broker Willie McKay insisted the £15m transfer was “clean”.

McKay is stunned at claims the transfer of the Nantes player to Cardiff was corrupt and he distanced Bluebirds manager Neil Warnock from any wrongdoing.

He said: “We have nothing to hide, the rumours are f***ing c**p, absolutely f***ing c**p.

“I’m sick of it. I’m shocked people are saying this. I’m waiting for the FA to phone me.

“I want a public meeting with everybody there and you can chair it — Sky, the papers, everybody can come.”