The final chapter in the long-running dispute which followed the death of footballer Emiliano Sala is set to play out in a French court. A judge is due to decide whether Cardiff City should be compensated by FC Nantes for the loss of the Argentine striker. Sala, 28, and pilot David Ibbotson died when the Piper Malibu plane carrying them crashed into the English Channel on the night of 21 January 2019. Seven years on, the battle between the two clubs will come to a head in the commercial court in Nantes on Monday, following a hearing in December 2025 in which Cardiff argued the man who booked the flight, Willie McKay, was acting on behalf of the French club - a claim denied by Nantes. The star striker was on his way to join Cardiff City – then in the Premier League – from Nantes for a £15m transfer fee, having signed for the club two days earlier.…