Cardiff City have been told by the FIFA Players' Status Committee to pay Nantes €6 million for the late Emiliano Sala.
The striker became Cardiff's record signing when a deal was struck with the Ligue 1 club in January.
But before he made an appearance for City, the plane carrying Sala from France to Wales crashed and he was killed, along with pilot David Ibbotson.
Cardiff claimed the agreement to pay Nantes a £15million fee was not legally binding because conditions insisted upon by Nantes were not fulfilled.
The FIFA Players' Status Committee said on Monday the €6m Nantes should receive from Cardiff is "corresponding to the first instalment due".
A statement read: "The FIFA Players' Status Committee, which never lost sight of the specific and unique circumstances of this tragic situation during its deliberations on the dispute at stake, refrained from imposing procedural costs on the parties.
"The findings of the decision were notified to the parties concerned today."
Hooliganism
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God sake let him rest peacefully there not fight over money clause transfer fee 💰 respect his family be sensitive
fishing
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Hopefully it goes to his family and no one else
Eugener
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Time for Cardiff City to do the right thing and pay Nantes what they owe for Emiliano Sala. As far as FIFA are concerned he was a Cardiff player when he died in tragic circumstances.Cardiff should pay the first £5m now and the rest of the £15m when instalments due in 2020 & 2021
RichardAllen
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Nobody has won anything in this and some people have lost more than we’ll ever know.