Vardy

[Guest Manini]

Why does it though? I can't understand that. He's gone from literally nothing to being offered £100K a week because he's spent the last 4 years with us. Everything he's been through, the best time of his life. He'll be associated with some of the greatest sporting stories and moments ever. Becoming a world famous fairytale as part of a team and as an individual. All of that whilst he played for us and because he played for us.

Achieving all his dreams. Being worshipped like very few players in our history. The 250,000 people at the parade.

If he doesn't feel a connection to the club after all that, I think it's fvcking weird tbh.

Apologies for being slow on the uptake here, but I've been trying to live a normal weekend without pulling my hair out over our star striker leaving to play for Arsenal.

Look, wether you understand it or not, it doesn't matter. It looks very likely that he's off. Yes, you're absolutely right, he will always be associated with great times at this club and we have made him who he is.

Did Ronaldo show any loyalty to United? Did Lambert show any loyalty to Southampton? Did Bale show any loyalty to Spurs? They're not bothered mate, they're footballers and they're greedy and they see the money. It happens time and time again and I find it astounding that people still get surprised by It.

He's 30 years old, he clearly wants a bumper pay day before he retires whilst playing for one of the biggest names in world football.

The fact he's having talks in the first place shows that there's no real connection between him and the club for **** sake. How more obvious can it get?!

[Moksky]

Fair enough.

It is a fair comment, I'm not here to piss people off, I will be gutted. But I'm a realist. He £10m better off atm , our people won't let him walk, if we don't come near it, then fair enough. Good luck to him. I know for a fact he will not be nowhere near as successful as he was at Leicester, simply because a) he left for £ b) their style will not suit him and they will not change

We all hope we will give us a fair crack at CL and repeating OUR Premier League title, as we don't like the thought of wondering what if.

[Spiritwalker]

If my dementing Granny was stuck in a shitty state-funded care home for 20 years, being humiliated and degraded, sitting for hours in her own piss, in what remains of our so-called 'social care' system, I for one would love to be able to do something about it.

 

Depends how you define greed really...

Possibly someone who is not happy earning 4 million a year.

[STUHILL]

I am not buying into this whole greed thing. I have no doubt that this is 99% money orientated move but we are talking about potentially £50,000 a week extra here guys! I don't care who you are or how much you are currently earning. That is one hell of a figure to give you sleepless nights thinking about. Don't forget he will have his agent in his ear saying how this could be his only ever chance of a big money move blah blah and he probably only has 3-4 years left at the top level at best so who can begrudge him making as much money as possible. He has the next 50 plus years after to live off it. Anyone who is saying they would not seriously entertain the idea of moving for that kind of financial incentive is a damn liar or just can't manage to comtemplate such a scenario. 

 

I am gutted if this happens but won't be at all surprised. I think Kante and Mahrez will soon be out the door too with the same money incentive 99% of the reason for moving. 

 

As others have said, my own hope now, is it is all concluded quickly and doesn't drag on and on. If they want out, then get it done and lets start getting some of our own targets in who want to be here (as in they get paid more here than their previous club plus Prem/Champ League football..) 

[Mezeker]

I am not buying into this whole greed thing. I have no doubt that this is 99% money orientated move but we are talking about potentially £50,000 a week extra here guys! I don't care who you are or how much you are currently earning. That is one hell of a figure to give you sleepless nights thinking about. Don't forget he will have his agent in his ear saying how this could be his only ever chance of a big money move blah blah and he probably only has 3-4 years left at the top level at best so who can begrudge him making as much money as possible. He has the next 50 plus years after to live off it. Anyone who is saying they would not seriously entertain the idea of moving for that kind of financial incentive is a damn liar or just can't manage to comtemplate such a scenario. 

 

I am gutted if this happens but won't be at all surprised. I think Kante and Mahrez will soon be out the door too with the same money incentive 99% of the reason for moving. 

 

As others have said, my own hope now, is it is all concluded quickly and doesn't drag on and on. If they want out, then get it done and lets start getting some of our own targets in who want to be here (as in they get paid more here than their previous club plus Prem/Champ League football..) 

Amen

[Spiritwalker]

Your are a prize **** Vader and your name shows it you bellend , what's up can't you deal with facts.

How does my name show me to be a bellend? ( although I am planning to change it)

If you read my posts on this thread you will see I said it is not the end of the world.

When McAllister went I thought it was the end of the world, the same with Dicov, Lennon

and Izzet. Eventually you realise this is how football is and you move on, so I sort of agree

with you in that respect.

The reason I called you a cock is because you basically called anyone who is pissed off about

Vardy jumping ship a bandwagon jumping c*nt.

[Guest]

If Vardy goes to Arsenal, I prefer it to be purely about the money. An unashamed semi-retirement on fantastic wages.

 

'At leicester I made history, now it's time to make money.' Unpleasant, but honest. I could tolerate that.

[Grantham Fox]

no point arguing amongst ourselves

in the voice of ivan drago "if he goes then he goes"

the club must have replacements lined up and keeping kante and mahrez is prob their main priority i mean cmon mahrez is the player of the year ffs

if our team looked like this against united in the community sheild people would be saying jamie who

----------------------------------kasper------------------------------------

simpson----------huth-------------------morgan-----------------fuchs

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mahrez-----------drinkwater---------kante--------------albrighton/schlupp

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----------------slimani--------------------musa----------------------------

although i fully expect to see this kind of thread several times before the season starts kasper,mahrez,kante , drinkwater are all going to be in this position

I understand what you're saying, but if that is our lineup and Amartey on the bench, then we'll have 5 AFCON representatives in our first team and subs. But I agree with what you're saying.

[Callabinho]

Who would have thought it, the champions of England can't keep hold of their best players. What a sad, sad state football is in.

[STUHILL]

Who would have thought it, the champions of England can't keep hold of their best players. What a sad, sad state football is in.

 

Totally agree. Just proves that money outweighs achievement everytime. No "smaller" club could have done more on the pitch to keep its star players. Very sad but also very predictable. 

[Dynamogoon]

Amazing.

We still have nothing concrete, the bookies odds are all over the place, which proves no one really knows anything.

Some journo reports that Arsenal have bid, and we all go into meltdown and declare vardy a scumbag.

Have a word guys, at least wait and see what transpires

[Guest]

Just to clarify, the only thing we know for sure is that Arsenal have triggered the release clause, which gives them the right to talk to Vardy. Beyond that everything else is speculation. He may be talking to them about the weather, he may be demanding 20m a week and an alsatian named Taco. Who knows. None of us probably.

 

Incredibly, the best way many people have found to react to this is to cast aspersions at everyone within the vicinity of the globe. The abuse towards Vardy, Mrs Vardy, etc etc would be stupid after the fact, but to do so before anything is confirmed is a whole nother level of self-defeating idiocy. 

 

If you want someone to stay you try something a little more persuasive than slagging them off.

[Guest]

Amazing.

We still have nothing concrete, the bookies odds are all over the place, which proves no one really knows anything.

Some journo reports that Arsenal have bid, and we all go into meltdown and declare vardy a scumbag.

Have a word guys, at least wait and see what transpires

You beat me to it - all good points 

[Babylon]

Amazing.

We still have nothing concrete, the bookies odds are all over the place, which proves no one really knows anything.

Some journo reports that Arsenal have bid, and we all go into meltdown and declare vardy a scumbag.

Have a word guys, at least wait and see what transpires

If you don't think there is something in this, then you're a bit deluded... I'm sorry.

No denials, reputable journos breaking the news.

[The Doctor]

If you don't think there is something in this, then you're a bit deluded... I'm sorry.

No denials, reputable journos breaking the news.

Eh, we've had confirmation of a bid from ranieri in that italian paper - anything more is just twitter noise; people then jumping to him having a medical this weekend, getting £130k a week and taking doris the tea ladies favourite hair net with him are extrapolating from very little.

Is there something in this - we already know there is; is it what everyone thinks - probably not.

Maybe I'm giving him too much credit in thinking he's smart enough to see moving to arsenal would destroy his career but this is surely their version of mcarthur-cambiasso; making an approach but with no real plans to take it further to force someone elses hand.

[Sly]

It'd be like when Torres joined Chelsea.

At his best, Torres relied on his pace and having that space in behind. Join a bigger club, people defend first. Narrow, deep, restrict the space.

Vardy would still score, just not as many as he would in a system designed around him. I can see him being pushed out wide, aka Walcott.

If rumours are true, Manchester United declined to bid. They don't see him as fitting into the system.

For me, Jamie Vardy was immortalised at Leicester as part of a team that created a miracle. That team won the league, not Jamie Vardy.

If he wants to move now, then I wouldn't stand in his way. Leicester are a team and if he doesn't want to be here, let him go, no point upsetting the apple cart.

Realistically, we're pushing for a Europa League spot next season. If he wants more, then why begrudge him that?

[Birmingham fox]

Right it's a new day and I've calmed down a bit today. I will be gutted if he goes but realistically this was going to happen after our great season.

I am going to slightly compare us with Athletico Madrid 10-15 years ago. They weren't a big club then. Every year they had there best players cherry picked from them. What they have had is a great manager and scouting network and continue to find players to replace the outgoing players.

For me I love vardy but he is isn't great playing with back to goal. Every team that comes to the kp this season is going to sit deep and negate that pace.

My point is yes it will be devastating if he goes but we can and will move on. Players will still be attracted by playing for the champions and in champions league. He can be replaced

[foxes161]

well as of saturday afternoon he was still in leicester but maybe he travels down today if he's going

[Collymore]

That has just put me off watching the movie...

...and the euros!

[roblcfc84]

It'd be like when Torres joined Chelsea.

At his best, Torres relied on his pace and having that space in behind. Join a bigger club, people defend first. Narrow, deep, restrict the space.

Vardy would still score, just not as many as he would in a system designed around him. I can see him being pushed out wide, aka Walcott.

If rumours are true, Manchester United declined to bid. They don't see him as fitting into the system.

For me, Jamie Vardy was immortalised at Leicester as part of a team that created a miracle. That team won the league, not Jamie Vardy.

If he wants to move now, then I wouldn't stand in his way. Leicester are a team and if he doesn't want to be here, let him go, no point upsetting the apple cart.

Realistically, we're pushing for a Europa League spot next season. If he wants more, then why begrudge him that?

I don't think we are realistically pushing for Europa league next year. I think realistically top ten and solid showing in the group stages of the champions league would be a good season

[TheLittleBigMan]

This has such potential.

The more you think about it. I'm in awe.

 

This just in....

[Guest Cujek]

Arsenal is poison and Wenger is a Cvnt, Jamie if you go then you are basically giving up the remainder of your career.

[mozartfox]

Giroud is mouthing off on SSN. Interesting I would have thought the Arse would not want that happen- still I suppose blatant tapping-up is permitted in a release clause scenario.

[benpicko]

[roblcfc84]

I wish him all the success - last season was once in a lifetime and let's get things straight even with him won't happen again.

But this whole transfer shows a distinct lack of imagination and demonstrates one of the reasons we won the league in the first place. Instead of scouting properly and developing players in line with a long term strategy it's the same old big club approach - he did well let's buy him.

Naive for both parties.