Jamie Vardy- World Class?

[ARM1968 2,666]

18 minutes ago, Royston. said:

Vardy has been immense for us because he is our game plan.

Times when we havent played to his strengths he has looked pedestrian.

 

Relying on Vardy is a risk as we have no direct replacement and next to nothing in back up options.

 

We cant say the risk hasnt been worth it over the years though and what a player, what a legend, what a man he is for us!!

 

I think its fair to say IF the likes of Barca, Real, Juve played to his strengths he would be just as successful.

 

He’d be World Class at Club Tropicana

[Dan LCFC 11,700]

13 hours ago, ThaiFox said:

I wouldn't want him anywhere near the England team now.

 

It's great for us he now gets time off to concentrate on LCFC rather than all the travelling, and then wasting his time sitting on the England bench, possibly to get on for a few minutes towards the end of a match. 

 

He was right to retire from international football. It was a sensible move to prolong his P/L career for as long as possible. 

 

And I agree with other posters that if he'd played for a so called glamour club he would be talked about as a world class player. Conversely, I doubt he would have achieved what he has done if he had played for a so called glamour club.

 

Sometimes players/managers are just a perfect fit for a club, and I think Leicester City and Vardy is a perfect example of that.

By all means I agree. He was never utilised properly by any England set up. He was wasting his time and he knew it.

 

Still think it's an error from England though. Not many teams going to Euro 2020 can boast two top strikers. We can and one of them won't even go.

[Tom12345 1,177]

24 minutes ago, Dan LCFC said:

By all means I agree. He was never utilised properly by any England set up. He was wasting his time and he knew it.

 

Still think it's an error from England though. Not many teams going to Euro 2020 can boast two top strikers. We can and one of them won't even go.

I agree. To me he is world class and it is a big shame that Southgate does not utilise him properly leading to his decision to not join. He is better than Kane in my opinion for England. In fact, I think Son is more suited and better for the Spurs than Kane is. They are obviously experts, but it seems to me there is an unreasonable obsession with Kane that overrides what is best for the team.  For example, the insistence on playing Kane for Spurs in the ECL finals last year was crazy, when he was not fully fit and the team flourished without him.

[Heymister2015 450]

his conversion rate is better than Harry Kane's,  He's scored world class goals, scored againts all the big clubs and scored in the champions league.  He is world class!

[TheUltimateWinner 6,526]

Bit late but against Bournemouth as soon as I saw Vardy through and the keeper off his line I knew what he was going to do and knew it was going to go in. 

 

Legend. One of the best PL strikers of all time.

[car1os 534]

I don’t think there is a striker in the world game like Vardy.

 

Ok, so most of his goals are basically him running in behind and belting it past the keeper, but if you look more closely he can strike with either foot, can score from any angle, is a great header of the ball, is focussed on the team as opposed to just his own game, and is also a clever crosser of the ball in wide areas. 

 

He has a fantastic conversion rate, single-handedly forces teams to set up against his strengths, and leads from the front in all aspects of his game. Furthermore, I think he loves the club and knows the club and fans love him. We’re very lucky to have him (and him us!), and I think our unique striker for the above reasons is world class

 

Edit - let’s not forget his 11-game record!

Edited 7 September 2019 by car1os

[CyprusFox 236]

Kane would never score  most  of the half chances that Vardy does, as he never makes the same runs into space, inviting the pass that leaves  him with just the keeper to beat. If Southgate had ever utilised him as Leicester do, I doubt he would have retired and would certainly have had more impact than his record shows. 

[The Year Of The Fox 2,480]

3 hours ago, car1os said:

I don’t think there is a striker in the world game like Vardy.

 

Ok, so most of his goals are basically him running in behind and belting it past the keeper, but if you look more closely he can strike with either foot, can score from any angle, is a great header of the ball, is focussed on the team as opposed to just his own game, and is also a clever crosser of the ball in wide areas. 

 

He has a fantastic conversion rate, single-handedly forces teams to set up against his strengths, and leads from the front in all aspects of his game. Furthermore, I think he loves the club and knows the club and fans love him. We’re very lucky to have him (and him us!), and I think our unique striker for the above reasons is world class

 

Edit - let’s not forget his 11-game record!

Totally agree mate

[Out Foxed 1,222]

yes but only in a system geared towards him

Edited 7 September 2019 by Out Foxed

[davieG 17,092]

It’s about time we recognised Jamie Vardy as a true Premier League great
by Stephen Tudor  @SteTudor123shareFacebook Twitter Pocket Pocket Pocket Addthis

Think of a great Premier League striker and who comes to mind? Thierry Henry? Alan Shearer? Perhaps a present-day marksman such as the unnervingly clinical Sergio Aguero?

Once we get going the names easily roll off the tongue – Ruud Van Nistelrooy, Ian Wright, Wayne Rooney – and we can all play along. And should we do so it would take most of us a good deal of time before we reached Jamie Vardy.

Why is this? After all, the Leicester City forward boasts 83 goals from 180 Premier League appearances, which equates to a goal every 2.1 games over a period of several campaigns. That’s a ratio comparable to the very best the English top flight has gifted us with since 1992 and sharing their stratosphere is all the more remarkable given that – the fantastical 2015/16 season aside – Vardy’s team usually reside outside of the top six.

Three years ago the Sheffield-born hit-man won the FWA Footballer of the Year award, an honour not bestowed on Michael Owen, Robbie Fowler, Andy Cole – we could go on – and in that same season his 24 goals were pivotal in securing his side a wholly unexpected league title. A quick run-through of the Premier League’s most prolific goal-scorers brings up a whole host of players who didn’t achieve that. Vardy did.

 

In a reputational sense, as important to the stats is the fact that the 32-year-old is not merely a tap-in merchant.

Indeed, the bread-and-butter finish from close range is a barely used trait in his arsenal, one that is instead eclipsed by an array of spectacular drives, cute and clever executions, and ice-cold dispatches at the end of explosive darts with defenders trailing in his wake.

Last weekend the ball bounced up 25 yards out against Bournemouth and Vardy struck a glorious, arced effort that sailed into the net over the goalkeeper. Brendan Rodgers later deemed it ‘sublime’ and it really was.

It was the kind of goal we would all be overly familiar with by now had Henry scored it; a staple of greatest goal compilations. Yet, just like the French genius’ goals that take your breath away could be described as being typical to the man, that’s Vardy’s stock-in-trade: the spectacular.

With all this in mind, assessing where he is pitched among the brilliant forwards of yesteryear and today intrigues. To suggest that Jamie Vardy is under-rated would be disingenuous and all told he is rightfully admired and acknowledged. Yet when compared to the ‘establishment’ greats – from Shearer right through to Aguero – it’s hard to shake the feeling that he’s placed short of them.

In part this is because he will forever be the ‘non-league footballer turned England international’ and though admittedly Ian Wright took a similar rags-to-riches route to the very top, it’s worth remembering that Wrighty did much of his plundering for Arsenal and Vardy for the Foxes, one club significantly more glamorous than the other.

It should be remembered too the scepticism that bordered on puzzlement when Vardy was linked with Arsenal just three short years ago. Why was this? Could it be because we had gotten too immersed in the Vardy narrative, that of the Sunday League everyman perennially punching above his natural calling?

If that was – and indeed is – the case then as one of the Premier League’s most consistently deadly strikers continues to defy his twilight years by firing goals aplenty (he currently has three goals and an assist from 360 minutes played this term) perhaps a long overdue revision is required.

It used to be said that Jamie Vardy is having a party. Maybe now is the time to stop viewing his goal-scoring exploits as debauchery and instead invite him to the top table of legendary Premier League forwards.

 

https://www.footballfancast.com/premier-league/leicester/its-about-time-we-recognised-jamie-vardy-as-a-true-premier-league-great

 

 

[Tom12345 1,177]

I know I shouldn’t, but I can’t help but think that I will be somewhat happier than usual if Vardy scores a goal against Man Utd on a counter out pacing Maguire along the way.

Edited 9 September 2019 by Tom12345

[ARM1968 2,666]

1 hour ago, Tom12345 said:

I know I shouldn’t, but I can’t help but think that I will be somewhat happier than usual if Vardy scores a goal against Man Utd on a counter out pacing Maguire on along the way.

Maguire will know Vardy’s moves inside out. But as he’s as slow as a doped cart horse it really won’t matter much. 😂

[gurru991 1,396]

18 minutes ago, ARM1968 said:

Maguire will know Vardy’s moves inside out. But as he’s as slow as a doped cart horse it really won’t matter much. 😂

Vardy would be Maguires worst nightmare.  A centre forward that likes to play on the CBs shoulder.

[trabuch 2,254]

Vardy is beyond world class. He's Leicester class. The greatest player we've had. Absolute legend. Him and Fuchs and Albrighton and Wes and Huth. I'll stop now. What a ****ing team. What a ****ing team. We are legend! 

[urban.spaceman 31,672]

 

 

 

[Cujek 925]

On 03/09/2019 at 07:34, MC Prussian said:

 

 

He could well be the secret weapon in case Kane malfunctions.
Seriously, call him up, put him on the bench, bring him on in dire situations, feed him and see the magic develop.

 

Even as a substitute, he could do the trick. A bit like Solskjaer for Manchester United.

 

He's at present the second-best in-form English striker in a top division behind Abraham, on par with Kane.

 

I'm just happy seeing Vardy score again on a more regular basis, here's to more to come.

All Leicester players should boycott England with the current load of muppets in charge. 

 

We are a joke, we can beat 3rd and 2nd rate teams but soon as we come up a tier 1 nation we lose. 

 

I can't express how much I loathe to watch England these days. 

 

Vardy did the right thing quitting, being dragged all around the world then getting shoved on the left wing for 25 mins must have been soul destroying. 

[MC Prussian 7,505]

38 more goals for the club and he'll have reached Ernie Hine level (156).

 

That's right - towards the end of next season, Vardy could potentially equal a record from the 2-3-5 formation era and become LCFC's 3rd highest goalscorer of all times.

Edited 11 November 2019 by MC Prussian

[volpeazzurro 3,489]

22 minutes ago, Cujek said:

All Leicester players should boycott England with the current load of muppets in charge. 

 

We are a joke, we can beat 3rd and 2nd rate teams but soon as we come up a tier 1 nation we lose. 

 

I can't express how much I loathe to watch England these days. 

 

Vardy did the right thing quitting, being dragged all around the world then getting shoved on the left wing for 25 mins must have been soul destroying. 

Absolutely right. The only time Southgate will relycrantly pick Vardy is if, like last time, he has to been seen to do so because the fans and the media recognise his undoubted talents. He would then just let him rot on the bench again. So don't waste your time on that bunch of muppets Jamie, just remain where you're really appreciated and show em up!

[Lincolnfox 45]

3 hours ago, urban.spaceman said:

 

 

 

Cockshaw by name 

[yorkie1999 4,484]

26 minutes ago, Lincolnfox said:

Cockshaw by name 

Shaun from enderby by nature.

[Guest An Sionnach]

Vardy doesn't need England to raise his profile, he is world famous already and although he is not Messi or Lewandowski he is easily one of the top ten strikers in the business.

[drofmor55 120]

Almost sacrilege to say this but JV is the closest i have seen to Denis Law. Cant give him any higher praise than that.

[Guest An Sionnach]

29 minutes ago, drofmor55 said:

Almost sacrilege to say this but JV is the closest i have seen to Denis Law. Cant give him any higher praise than that.

Good call that, same height,same build , same lightening pace and same cool and ruthlessness in scoring positions . I think Denis shaded it in the air though ,who said white guys can't jump , D.L.could jump 5ft off of the ground !

[whoareyaaa 2,375]

I think we can class him in the same breath as Shearer, Wrighty, Van Nistlerooy etc.. maybe not on the world stage as he never been given the chance but certainty at league level

[Tiny earl 40]

He's nine goals away from 100 goals,all being well he will do it this season.

Iknow he'll eventually have a statue but can anyone think of a fitting tribute

we can celebrate with him,inside he ground.