There are “genuine concerns” for the wellbeing of Cardiff City’s record signing Emiliano Sala following the disappearance of a plane he is believed to have been travelling on.
A light aircraft which is understood to have departed Nantes for Wales vanished from the radar off Alderney in the Channel Islands on Monday evening.
The BBC reports that there were two passengers on board, but they lost contact with air traffic control near Casquets lighthouse – around eight miles north-west of Alderney.
It is feared that Argentine striker Sala, who completed a £15 million ($19m) move to Cardiff on Saturday having netted 12 Ligue 1 goals already this season, is among those to have gone missing.