Vardy

[dylanlegend]

Am I the only one who thinks he's never looked 'happy' here.

I've never really seen him smiling and relaxed other than in training or with his teammates. The rest of the squad seem much more relaxed.

I've seen some clips of the lap around the pitch after Everton game carrying his Daughter from the look on his face you'd think we had just been relegated not won the league.

Maybe he was annoyed Mahrez / Kante being linked with every club under the us when he gets linked to West Ham! I think most people just assumed he would stay with LCFC.

[southfox66]

I'm sure the owners can match any offer Arsenal made, maybe the more telling question do they want to. I'm guessing not, clearly they see more value in selling a 29 yr old striker for 29 million to invest in younger up and coming players, than paying him an extra £60000 a week to stay at Leicester.

[kingston_fox]

As much as I love vardy, business is business - better the club use the money to invest in the future than spunk mega cash on someone who, let's face it, has had an incredible season but isn't guaranteed to repeat it for next year.

Can't blame him or his agent, his stock is probably at its highest value. I trust our owners to use the money wisely and bring in a suitable replacement.

Loyalty is for fans

[theessexfox]

Am I the only one who thinks he's never looked 'happy' here.

I've never really seen him smiling and relaxed other than in training or with his teammates. The rest of the squad seem much more relaxed.

I've seen some clips of the lap around the pitch after Everton game carrying his Daughter from the look on his face you'd think we had just been relegated not won the league.

Seems to be the main joker in the dressing room, remember those videos when the team was out cycling on a pre-season tour, always seemed pretty chilled to me, especially since he's been playing well.

[whoareyaaa]

I'm sure the owners can match any offer Arsenal made, maybe the more telling question do they want to. I'm guessing not, clearly they see more value in selling a 29 yr old striker for 29 million to invest in younger up and coming players, than paying him an extra £60000 a week to stay at Leicester.

That extra 60,000 a week would be pittance on the return if he was to have another season or two like his previous, especially for a club like us with the situation we are in, There are not that many players around with his desire and hunger who have his pace and eye for goal, just look at all the losers at Arsenal.

It would be stupid not to offer him the money he wants.

[Livid]

Seems to be the main joker in the dressing room, remember those videos when the team was out cycling on a pre-season tour, always seemed pretty chilled to me, especially since he's been playing well.

Yes around his teammates he looks fine. I don't know maybe the casino incident brought it home to him how he has to watch his behaviour the entire time he's in the public eye.

[Fox 4 Life]

Nobody is bigger than this great club. We proved everyone wrong and changed English football forever this season. If vardy wants to leave ****ing let him, we will bounce back and move on without him.

[Livid]

I'm sure the owners can match any offer Arsenal made, maybe the more telling question do they want to. I'm guessing not, clearly they see more value in selling a 29 yr old striker for 29 million to invest in younger up and coming players, than paying him an extra £60000 a week to stay at Leicester.

That would open a serious chasm in our wage structure if we matched Arsenal's offer. Not sure we want to go there.

[sly1]

Let him go move on leicester though &though we move on he as good as gone we go again

[Dan]

It is absolutely beyond me that anyone can claim he'd not have a connection with this club. If Vardy & Leicester have no connection then the sport really has lost every last drop of its soul as far as I'm concerned.

[NewquayFox]

I still think it's all crap journalism and Vardy will be a City player next season.....

[Spiritwalker]

This lad has come from literally nothing, to being offered 100 grand a week. I don't believe any of you would sit there and turn that down to show loyalty to a club which, let's be honest, means very little to him.

The shirt is only on loan lads, the only ones it means anything to really...is us!

I guess we are all different and live by different standards. While I'm sure I have many faults I

consider myself very loyal. In his position, given the option of sticking with the club I had made

my name, won the league as the biggest underdogs in history,, and would go on to become a

legend for maybe the next 100yrs even if I stayed for just another season, or increased my

earnings from 4m/yr to 6m/yr then it would be an easy choice to stay.

Looking at the bigger picture, this is not the end of the world. Without Vardy we probably won't

win the league but we probably wouldn't have won it with him either. In 2 yrs his pace will slow

and he will be finished as top draw striker. The biggest disappointment is that this has left a sour

taste at what was the greatest time in our history and when everyone is talking about fairy tales

it is a painful reminder what a fickle unscrupulous buisiness football is.

[ScouseFox]

It is absolutely beyond me that anyone can claim he'd not have a connection with this club. If Vardy & Leicester have no connection then the sport really has lost every last drop of its soul as far as I'm concerned.

all you need to do is look at the record. the moment he scored, the full squad and stadium celebrations like we'd won a trophy not just gone 1-0 up in a game in november. he is this leicester team, and this leicester team are him. can't fathom out how any normal human being would leave all this for arsenal.

[SecretPro]

It is absolutely beyond me that anyone can claim he'd not have a connection with this club. If Vardy & Leicester have no connection then the sport really has lost every last drop of its soul as far as I'm concerned.

 

I agree.

 

LCFC gave me hope that there was still loyalty and romance in football this year.

 

JV is literally on the verge of taking it away again and stamping up and down on it with dog shit on his shoes.

[ramboacdc]

If I wake up tomorrow and vardy is an arsenal player I am declaring a day of mourning in the house and not getting out of bed.

[Fox 4 Life]

If I wake up tomorrow and vardy is an arsenal player I am declaring a day of mourning in the house and not getting out of bed.

Voodoo dolls are coming out too!

[Wymsey]

Sounds like act of desperation by Arsenal too.

Already got decent forwards in Giroud, Sanchez and possibly Welbeck.

Has to hit form quickly or go under and rot like many have done after moving to The Emirates.

[Brooksy]

I still think it's all crap journalism and Vardy will be a City player next season.....

 

It is a bit strange how his odds don't seem to reflect the stories in the media. If a medical was really scheduled for tomorrow there wouldn't even be a market to bet on.

[ozvaldo]

I'm in the Dominican Republic right now and only check my phone when I'm back in the room. I'm scared refresh the Vardy story.

If I wake up and see him in an Arsenal shirt, I'm cutting my holiday short by a week and coming home to cry in my mother's arms.

[BoneDog]

It boggles the mind how he could want to leave after all that has happened. I'm 100% shocked. When mates were saying he will leave in the summer I laughed and said no chance are you mental. If he does leave I'll call him a c&ck sucker to his face on Twitter.

[LJS]

That's not really to his face though, is it?

[Vardinio'sCat]

If I have to listen to another person drag out the old 'it's a short career he has to provide for his family' line again.

 

Don't put it down to 'wanting to provide' - it's pure greed. 80k a week, 320k a month, 3.84m a year. Even after tax, with a career spanning just 4 more years I think you'll find Jamie Vardy has quite enough money to 'provide' for his family for the rest of his life. Provide in a significantly more lavish way than I will ever, most likely, be able to provide for my family, even if I work until I'm 70 years old. 

 

I very much doubt that even at this stage his future finances will ever be in question again.

 

Stop saying it, it's ****ing silly. He can always go and do a postal route with his lookalike if he falls on hard times / gets injured.

 

Good point about about the tax, I guess its 45%ish, giving him say 2.4m take home annually, say 10 million over the four years.

 

That might seem like a lot to you and me (and it is), but he is going to want some sound property investments, for a start. Whats the going rate for a swish London pad, and a really nice holiday home somewhere flash? Thats 3 or 4 mills gone, for a start.

 

Maintaining his properties, and not having to worry about counting the pounds too much in everyday life. Shall we say 200k, just as an example.

 

I just don't think you can compare what you and I get paid, with these kind of folks. He doesn't want to be tooling round in a Mondeo in 20 years time, he wants to maintain his lifestyle. Wouldn't you, if you were in his position? The man has made it, and he wants to secure his long term future against any unforeseen eventualities.

 

Long term illnesses or care when you are old can cost a small fortune these days (depending on how life pans out), not to mention helping his kids get a really good education and a foothold on the property ladder, so they don't have to break their backs in a sh***y factory/warehouse, for decades on end.

 

You can call it pure greed if you want, but I'd call it making what you can, when you can. 

 

I don't know what you earn, but I would be more than happy to be getting a hell of a lot more than I do now, and be hitting the golf course/beach in my late 50's, as opposed to working til I'm 75 and living off a modest retirement income (which is far more likely). I suppose you could call that greedy too.

[Kitchandro]

I agree.

 

LCFC gave me hope that there was still loyalty and romance in football this year.

 

JV is literally on the verge of taking it away again and stamping up and down on it with dog shit on his shoes.

 

On the one hand I totally agree.

 

On the other we still won the league. If all our players leave for more money and we're stuck with the youth squad as our starting team next season then that still can't be taken away.

 

Maybe loyalty has been shat on but the romance still happened as far as I'm concerned.

 

It's a bit like one of those Shakespeare (not Craig obvs) tragedies. Except Desdemona won the league before Othello murdered her so even though she was gutted to die via her lover she'd still die content in the fact that Othello's new girlfriend finished 10 points behind her in the league table.

[Dan]

I agree.

 

LCFC gave me hope that there was still loyalty and romance in football this year.

 

JV is literally on the verge of taking it away again and stamping up and down on it with dog shit on his shoes.

 

For me it'll make last season that bit more special, but it'll turn the future absolutely bleak and to be honest, I think I'll lose interest in it a bit. It will show that football really is just a massive closed shop and every other thing that could make it special has gone. There truly is no way to long-term success other than to have a massive backer. Leicester have pushed it further than I've seen anyone push it, but ultimately the materialistic soulless types will always get their way. To me it's saddening.

[TJB-fox]

Wenger is a top class salty ****. He's probably only doing this to say haha Leicester look what I can do now **** off back to the championship. Wow I hate Arsenal. Please Jamie anyone but Arsenal. Please.