none of us knows the man's economics so to me, an argument that KJ should stay at Sunderland because "he is already making enough" is not our place. We can come up which much better reasons for why he should stick around.
Olivier Kapo just gave away his posh Mercedes Benz to the boots boy because the insurance was too expensive and he probably making the same amount that KJ is.
Supposed KJ want to bling like P. Diddy and flex like a baller? Supposed that is the kinda income level he want to be at? Who are we to suggest what is a good enough salary for him?
Firstly it wasn't a comment on whether Kj should stay or go because of money, I think KJ is being paid what he is worth as a wage relative to the rest of the players at similar levels in the premiership.
My comment was made in response to thinking that KJ is like some poor version of oliver and that he must move to make money just in case. That maybe the case some 10 -20 years ago when footballers were still paid well but the realtively short shelf life meant hardship. Now the players are paid such vast sums that the short shelf life makes little difference. Indeed players can easily afford to retire much earlier and 1 decent contract sees them set for life as long as they are sensible.
I have seen players that have returned from serious injury never to be the same player again, I sincerely hope if the injury is serious that it is not the case for KJ.
omarldinho I am suprised at you, you are normally dead on the money. Kapo did give the apprentice a merc and good merc, but it was the apprentice given his age that could afford to insure it, so Kapo paid a years insurance for the lad aswell.
http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/oddballs/article.html?in_article_id=147599&in_page_id=46Big-hearted Birmingham midfielder Olivier Kapo shrugged off the disappointment of the club's Premier League relegation by giving his bootboy a £30,000 Mercedes.
Olivier Kapo
'Magnificent gesture': Olivier Kapo
The Frenchman handed the keys to his car to Blues apprentice James McPike as a thankyou gesture for looking after his kit during his first season at St Andrew's.
McPike, 20, had initially been disappointed when Kapo turned down his request for a pair of boots to mark the end of the campaign. But his mood ligthened considerably when Kapo instead gave him the keys to his car.
McPike, who signed professional terms as a 17-year-old earns an estimated £3000 a week - 100 times less than Kapo - and told his team-mate he could not accept as he couldn't afford the insurance.
But Kapo, 27, then drove the shocked youngster to his home, handed him the spare set of keys and the car's logbook and insisted on paying for a year's insurance.
Mercedes SLK
One careful owner: A Mercedes SLK
Kapo, on a reported £30,000-a-week and with two other top cars in his drive, will not be getting the bus to training anytime soon, but boss Alex McLeish still admitted it was a fantastic thing to do.
'It was a magnificent gesture and one that's entirely in keeping with Kapo's character,' said the Birmingham boss.
'He's been in Italy with Juventus, one of the biggest clubs in the world, but he clearly has not forgotten the time when he was an aspiring professional himself, hoping to go on to bigger and better things.
'As he was in such a generous mood, I asked him what he had done with the house he had left behind in Turin. Unfortunately, he smiled and said he wanted to keep hold of that.'
I think teh lads money should be £300 a week not £3000 as in the article btw.
