An excellent article here by Daniel Taylor. Hibs fans with memories will recall Willie McKay and the kind of person he is.
https://www.theguardian.com/football...ames-hard-face
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10-02-2019 11:53 AM #1
Willie McKay and Emiliano Salah
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10-02-2019 08:14 PM #4
All very tasteless to be squabbling about money at this moment in time. A young man has tragically lost his life and hasn't even been laid to rest yet. Just shows how much greed can take over some people. That McKay sounds like an absolute slime ball of a character. He certainly stirred a lot of **** up with hibs when the OF were sniffing around Brown and Thompson in 2007, not interested a jot in what was best for their young careers but just out to milk as much cash out of them for himself as he could.
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10-02-2019 09:09 PM #5
“The reliably noxious McKay.”
Sums it up about right.
As I said on another thread, Nantes don’t seem to be in the wrong here. Football is business and the deal was done. They are due £15m.
It is folk like McKay and Cardiff who have questions to answer about leaking details to the media. What does that achieve other than prolonging the grief for people who knew Sala?
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10-02-2019 10:24 PM #6
Awkward and this should all be done in private IMO.
A business transaction has taken place.
A plane has crashed and 2 people have died.
The business transaction is unaffected IMO.
Insurance will cover it all - the agents will also have some insurance to cover their financial feeding frenzy.
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10-02-2019 11:27 PM #7
The transfer fee has been the elephant in the room since the plane disappeared and it was just a question of time before the grubby issue of moneys due broke free.
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30-09-2019 09:07 PM #8
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[QUOTE=chrisski33;5705009]Sala u mean 😀[/QUOTE
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01-10-2019 09:17 AM #9
Sorry to talk about money and business when two people have died, but....
Back in the day when I worked in Financial Services, if a business (eg Cardiff City) had a valuable and costly asset (eg Emiliano Salah), you would insure that asset/person against loss (eg his death, sorry again for the cold. heartless business terms being used here).
Wonder if Cardiff have tried to save a few quid on insurance premiums or been a bit slow in sorting out a policy. IIRC, was called Keyman Insurance or similar? Think a few clubs and insurance agents might be scurrying around and sorting out policies for players that are hopping off and on private planes etc.
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10-02-2019 11:28 PM #11
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Where’s the pilot? Thinking more and more something dodgy has went on there
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10-02-2019 11:34 PM #12
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11-02-2019 12:31 AM #13
When it comes to agents football is very much reaping the whirlwind. For over a century it utterly took the piss out of the players, paying them peanuts compared to the income through crowds and latterly TV and sponsorship they generated.
It was totally understandable that when some savvy folk realised there was money to be made by representing the players and putting a stop to them being utterly exploited by clubs the charlatans and spivs would take the situation and turn it into a greed fest.
Once again football's own greed will prevent it taking the action it should. If they were serious about stopping these leeches sucking the game dry they would bring in a cap on transfer fees and insist that the player's cut pays out to his agent and that the percentage the agent gets from that cut is also capped. But the truth is clubs are so busy cutting each others throats to sign the best players they will continue to let the tail wag the dog.
It may bee unseemly to see Nantes asking for their money so quickly ….. but the truth is they were due it on the day it was scheduled to be paid and Cardiff's apparent search for a loophole or other avenue which will prevent them from having to pay it is far more reprehensible if you ask me.
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Will the plane ever be recovered ?
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11-02-2019 12:52 AM #15This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The pilot may have ejected, the plane may have broken up but there's no way they would leave the pilot's body in there if there was a chance of recovering it.
I don't think the plane will be recovered, pretty sure I heard that it would be too difficult but they still hope to be able to get enough info to work out the cause of the crash.
The thing I didn't like about the whole business was how quickly they called off the official search and how soon the crowdfunded search actually managed to find the wreckage. Relatives were close to having to spend their whole lives wondering what happened to the plane. A little bit of crowdfunding and at least some of them will have answers.
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11-02-2019 12:46 PM #16
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In terms of possible recovery, the plane isn’t that deep to make it too difficult, just need the right vessel with appropriate lifting equipment on site according to the guy that lead the successful search.Last edited by Scouse Hibee; 11-02-2019 at 06:32 AM.
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11-02-2019 07:07 AM #18
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Im assuming the pilot was ejected on impact - i haven’t seen any pics on the front of the plane so in assuming it was broken up
The pilots body, unfortunately may never be recovered
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11-02-2019 01:53 PM #22
Indeed. McKay wants his money. He could see difficulties ahead. Why wouldn't he? After all he is an utter sccumbag. I hope he receives absolutely nothing. I recall his son telling Sala that the flight to Cardiff wouldn't cost him anything. That flight would have cost at least £2500 alone. Tells you everything you need to know about Willie McKays football agency. Utter cockroaches.
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The emails between Sala & McKay's son were horrible. Sala was then texting everyone saying he was flying by private jet to Cardiff. Instead he ends up in a tiny single engined prop plane flown by a part time pilot with no commercial licence. Poor young man, he must have been consumed with doubts but got on that plane.
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20-06-2019 11:02 AM #24
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Hope they get relegated again next season.
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20-06-2019 03:31 PM #25
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Is it the original pilot that's been arrested? Who then passed the job off onto the guy who eventually flew it.
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20-06-2019 03:52 PM #26
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If Cardiff's insurance only just covers the actual transfer fee and they are going to have to stump up their own money to pay McKay's fees when he looks to be culpable for Sala being on that plane in the first place they will probably do everything they can to avoid that.
Its unlikely that there is an issue with paying the money to Nantes and more to do with waiting for an investigation to be done that allows Cardiff to with-hold payment from McKay.
Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if it was McKay himself that leaked this to the press in order to put pressure on Cardiff to make the payment to Nantes so that he gets his cut as soon as possible before any investigations are carried out.
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11-02-2019 01:55 PM #28
No doubt McKays company isn't UK registered either... No doubt be an offshore company, off the register. Greed, greed, greed.
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And the tax there compared to here is..?
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