Kyle Lafferty and claimed the striker asked for his wages to be quadrupled before he was let go. The Northern Ireland international exclusively told our sister paper the Sunday Mail he had pledged to stay and help the Rugby Park side back to the Premiership.
He rejected the club's stance he had knocked back a new deal for next season and said he only discovered he'd been released when Killie released a statement announcing his departure.But the Ayrshire outfit insist Lafferty wanted four times the pay packet he was earning during his brief spell.
A Kilmarnock statement said: "We wish to clarify remarks made by Kyle Lafferty in the Daily Record on Saturday, June 5, 2021.
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