Cardiff captain Sol Bamba has said some players at the Welsh club are afraid to fly after the disappearance of Emiliano Sala.
Sala and pilot David Ibbotson were on board a light aircraft that disappeared over the Channel Islands on January 21, just days after the forward joined Cardiff from Nantes.
And Bamba has revealed some Cardiff players no longer want to use planes to travel to away matches.
“It is very difficult to even describe how the players are feeling,” said Bamba. “It is a very unusual situation, a big tragedy.
"We have all been affected by it, the lads, the city, the whole club.
“We have had some help. We travel by plane and some of the lads have been thinking, ‘I do not want to go on it anymore.’ It was that deep.
“We are going to have to fly because we play games up north and flying is the easy way to get there and make sure we can rest.
"Of course when this happens you say you are not going to fly anymore, but unfortunately you have to.
“It is about making sure everyone is in the right frame of mind to fly again.”
Cardiff lost 2-1 to Arsenal at Emirates Stadium on Tuesday night in their first match since Sala disappeared. It should have been the forward’s debut.
Bamba said: “It was very difficult last night in these circumstances. But he would have been proud of us because we did well.”
