Agent Willie McKay says Cardiff abandoned Sala and left him to handle his own travel arrangements.
Mourners left yellow flowers below the portrait of Argentine football forward Emiliano Sala at the Beauvoir stadium in Nantes following his death.
“He was abandoned in a hotel more or less to do his travel arrangements himself,” Willie McKay told the BBC in an interview alongside his son. Willie McKay told the BBC he arranged the ill-fated flight through an experienced pilot who had flown him and many of his players “all over Europe on countless occasions”.
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