Cardiff City are under a transfer embargo before the January transfer window.
The transfer embargo follows the club’s failure to pay the first instalment of the £15 million transfer fee to French club Nantes for the late Emiliano Sala.
Sala died in a plane crash over the English channel just days after the transfer was announced. He was travelling from France to join his new club.
Cardiff’s chairman, Mehmet Dalman, told BBC Radio Wales he is “confident” the club will be able to lift the embargo before the window.
“We haven’t paid and at the moment have no intention of paying,” he said.
Cardiff lost their appeal against a ruling by governing body FIFA to pay the first instalment of Sala’s £15 million transfer fee.
Cardiff claimed he was not officially their player when he died. They refused to make any interim payments. FIFA ruled they should pay a first instalment of £5.3m and imposed a three-window transfer ban if they did not pay.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport heard an appeal in March, which they dismissed.
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Emiliano Sala, a tragedy that continues to shame football
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