Emiliano Sala sent a haunting text message to a friend minutes before his plane was lost over the English Channel.
Cardiff City's record £15million signing is missing presumed dead after his flight went off radar, north of Alderney at Les Casquets at 8.23pm on Monday, just an hour after taking off from Nantes Atlantique airport.
The single engine Piper PA-46 Malibu plane was bound for Cardiff but Diego Rolan, a friend and former team-mate of Sala while at Bordeaux, confirmed to Uruguayan radio last night: 'I know that Emiliano sent a message to a friend while he was on board the plane, before the signal was lost, telling him he was afraid and that if they did not find him, he would have already known what had happened.