"Destined for bigger things" LMAO, he's 33 in October and has a crippled knee. Hardly 'the next big thing' is he!
As I've said before I'd keep the prick and make him play in the reserves week in week out .That would curb his ego and his overblown reputation .What's the betting a recurrence of a knee injury would re-appear within a fortnight.As a second thought I'd send him to Preston to join Browny they deserve each other .Two overrated BIG MOUTHS.
Just a point regarding Kilbane 'taking a cut in wages'. What he did was spread his wages out over two years instead of one - that was a very smart move on his behalf. I am not up to scratch regarding the taxation in the UK but would imagine that pro footballers would be subjected to about 50% on those sort of wages. This would bring Jimmy's wage into a different perspective dropping from 22 and a half thousand (clear) to about 10 thousand - big difference when you are coming to the end of your career.
By taking his wage over two years instead of one, Kilbane will have saved about ã15k in tax, as he still pays 50% on almost all the money(he only pays lower tax on the first ã150k of earnings each year and most of that's still at 40%). He had no need to take that pay cut, he could have taken his money in full, then been released to sign for another club now and he'd have been much better off. What he did wasn't clever, it was very generous and he deserves a massive amount of credit for it.
But you obviously had 10 minutes to spare, so was it wasted? Remember, if a tree falls down, and no one is there, does it make a noise????
