Emiliano Sala did NOT want to join Cardiff City, heartbreaking WhatsApp messages show

FC Nantes football club owner Waldemar Kita (Image: AFP/Getty Images)

Messages from Emiliano Sala before he died reveal he had reservations about joining Cardiff City, it has emerged.Heartbreaking audio WhatsApp messages from the Argentine striker were aired on French television in which the former Nantes footballer tells a friend he did not want to join the Bluebirds.Sala was tragically killed when the Piper Malibu plane he and pilot David Ibbotson were flying in crashed into the English Channel while flying from France to Cardiff.It came just two days after Sala had been unveiled as the Bluebirds' record £15million signing.Sala's body was recovered from the underwater plane wreckage on February 6 following an extensive search but pilot David Ibbotson, 59, of Crowle, Lincolnshire, has not been found.Now, a WhatApp message sent by Sala to a friend on January 6 was released on Wednesday night's L’Équipe Enquete documentary, Mirror Online reports. They show that the Argentine - despite admitting it was a good offer financially - was not keen on joining the Bluebirds."Last night, I sent a message to Meïssa [N'diaye, Sala's agent], he called me a few hours later," Sala said."So we had discussions and he told me the last night Franck Kita [son of Nantes owner Waldemar] sent him a message to talk, so he called him. They spoke. And, they want to sell me."So, there is the offer from Cardiff today. On their side, they have negotiated to get a lot of money. So they absolutely want me to go there."It is true that it is a good contract but from a football perspective it is not interesting for me. So… there you go, they are trying in every way to get me to go there."Me I am not scared to go there, because I have battled throughout my career, so to go there and fight, that does not make me scared.“On the contrary. But also, I say to myself that Meïssa must find me something better between now and the end of the window. Meïssa has said no to Cardiff because he does not want me to go there."He thinks that in terms of football, in terms of where we are today, we are in a position of strength in every which way, in terms of on the pitch, the contract, all of that. But I don’t care about that and I do not want that. I don’t give a f*** about being in a position of strength."It is true that I would like to find something interesting in terms of contractually and also from a football perspective, but sometimes you can’t have both. On the other hand, I do not want to speak with Kita, because I do not want to get angry. He is someone who disgusts me when I am face to face with him."Him today, he wants to sell me to Cardiff because he has done a super negotiation, he will get the money he wants eh?”“He, he wants me to go there, he hasn’t even asked what I want…"I don’t know what to do because as I said to you it is I who has to get up every day and see the face of this person… But nobody is looking at me… myself… me internally, what I am having to go through."So, it is very hard, it is very hard, because I feel like there are not many people who would put themselves in my place.”