Cardiff City have offered to pay to take Emiliano Sala ‘back to rest’ in his native Argentina, the club’s owner Vincent Tan has told talkSPORT.
The football world has offered their condolences to Sala’s family after the devastating news of the striker’s death.
Dorset police confirmed on Thursday that the body recovered from the plane which crashed in the English Channel was formally identified as Cardiff’s record signing.
The body of pilot David Ibbotson is still missing.
Cardiff issued a statement following the news on Thursday evening, which read: “We offer our most heartfelt sympathies and condolences to the family of Emiliano. He and David will forever remain in our thoughts.”
And Bluebirds owner Vincent Tan contacted talkSPORT host Jim White on Friday morning to offer his extended sympathies.
The Piper Malibu N264DB plane lost contact with air traffic control over the Channel during a flight from Nantes to Cardiff on Monday January 21.
Sala, who was announced as Cardiff’s club-record signing only three days earlier, was in France saying goodbye to former team-mates at the Ligue 1 club.
An initial search and rescue operation failed to locate the plane but it was later discovered by the AAIB and privately funded search teams.
They recovered a body from the wreckage, which has now been identified as the Argentine striker, while the pilot is still missing.
The aircraft remains 67 metres underwater 21 miles off the coast of Guernsey.