Brendan contemplating life without a Vardy around

[Bazly]

Rodgers has said in press comments that the search for a JV replacement is on. How do you replace a Vardy? A horrible, aggressive little git who strikes fear into the opposition and knows where the goal is from a header (amazing goals for such a shorty), on the volley (who will ever forget that Liverpool goal) to in the box cheeky back heel flicks. One thing for certain, Natcho man isn't going to answer to this particular question. Vardy is a bit of a one off so it'll probably be a more aerial dominant and hold up player with more goals required from the midfield. Oh my god, that means Perez! So lose Vardy and at least two players will be needed. But who? van Persy and Ronaldo of 10 years ago would have been ideal, maybe we can afford them now?

 

Answers on a note pad to Rodgers. Hopefully JV can step into some kind of youth development and management role at the club.

[Nalis]

Someone like Louie Barry would have been great if he was a youth player at Brighton or Fulham. As he's at Villa, he'd probably only go to one of the rich 6 if he was to move.

[Kingleicester]

9 minutes ago, Bazly said:

Brenda has said in press comments that the search for a JV replacement is on. How do you replace a Vardy? A horrible, aggressive little git who strikes fear into the opposition and knows where the goal is from a header (amazing goals for such a shorty), on the volley (who will ever forget that Liverpool goal) to in the box cheeky back heel flicks. One thing for certain, Natcho man isn't going to answer to this particular question. Vardy is a bit of a one off so it'll probably be a more aerial dominant and hold up player with more goals required from the midfield. Oh my god, that means Perez! So lose Vardy and at least two players will be needed. But who? van Persy and Ronaldo of 10 years ago would have been ideal, maybe we can afford them now?

 

Answers on a note pad to Brenda. Hopefully JV can step into some kind of youth development and management role at the club.

With absolutely great difficulty 

[Countryfox]

Barnes.

[majaco]

This thread seems familiar.  Perhaps somebody could start another thread about replacing Vardy.  It could replace this thread which tried to replace yesterday's thread.

[Webbo]

We won't geta like for like replacement for Vardy. We'll find as good a striker as we can, of any type/style and adapt our game around him. 

[Ric Flair]

Knowing us we'll have stumbled across him with this Wakeling and the whole world will be scrabbling about wondering how on earth we do it.

 

In all seriousness, replacing him is enough on impossible straight off the bat. We do need a striker to compliment him anyway so let's start there first.

[Twitcher]

Never mind replacing him, we need another striker in this transfer window, if we are serious about competing in all three competitions.

 

He's limped off a couple of times lately, which is probably linked to an ongoing tweak he's referenced himself. 

 

Another quality striker and I think we can make a serious challenge on all three fronts.

 

I think without one, we probably just miss out on the cups and maybe finish fifth or sixth.

 

No disrespect to the other finishers at the club, but I think another natural goal scorer to play alongside/replace Vardy where necessary really takes us to the next level. Time to spend some cash and really make a statement.

 

Having said that about spending I contradict myself a little, and I think having a natural goal scoring instinct is probably more important than how much potential the player might have and the price tag.

 

Ideally a long term replacement, but if not, at least someone else in this window that can chip in with c.10 goals including important ones. 

 

Going expensive, I've no real idea. Going relatively cheap; Dwight Gayle....

[Strokes]

19 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

Knowing us we'll have stumbled across him with this Wakeling and the whole world will be scrabbling about wondering how on earth we do it.

 

In all seriousness, replacing him is enough on impossible straight off the bat. We do need a striker to compliment him anyway so let's start there first.

If you’re raving about Wakeling, that’ll be the kiss of death for him. It can only go wrong now.

[Ric Flair]

1 minute ago, Strokes said:

If you’re raving about Wakeling, that’ll be the kiss of death for him. It can only go wrong now.

I've been the voice of encouragement behind most of the worlds top stars.

[Luttfox]

They will find someone, i remember thinking the same about when Dickov left, how do you replace him, but we did

 

The team is setup to play to Vardys strength and to suit his game. I'm sure we can adapt our play to suit a slightly different style of forward

[Spudulike]

Vardy is irreplaceable, we know that. Pointless searching for a clone as there is unlikely to be one and puts huge pressure on the newcomer. 

 

I think we have a better chance of finding an Ings style player that could work for us. 

[Saxondale]

Irreplaceable. What we need is an alternative.

[Babylon]

You replace Vardy by getting a right winger and a striker who contribute goals, not just a replacement Striker. 

[Guest Chocolate Teapot]

3 minutes ago, Babylon said:

You replace Vardy by getting a right winger and a striker who contribute goals, not just a replacement Striker. 

Completely agree with this - a front 3 that contribute 45-50 goals a season is the way forward reducing the focus on one individual.

[stu]

7 minutes ago, Babylon said:

You replace Vardy by getting a right winger and a striker who contribute goals, not just a replacement Striker. 

Rob Tanner suggested this in his recent article after Stoke, i.e. how the team adapted without Vardy with Perez playing a false 9 and with Barnes and Praet/Albrighton playing as the more advanced attackers rather than 'wingers'.

 

He was suggesting that would be a case of a change in system / roles that would eventually be the Vardy replacement rather than a signing a like for like striker.

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[Collymore]

56 minutes ago, Nalis said:

Someone like Louie Barry would have been great if he was a youth player at Brighton or Fulham. As he's at Villa, he'd probably only go to one of the rich 6 if he was to move.

If anything that goal against Liverpool made me realise that he hasn't got much pace, the defender kind of stumbled and he managed to get through, but it didn't get my very excited to be honest. I think the media (especially social media) whipped up into a frenzy but he looks weak and not particularly quick IMO, not on the level to replace Vardy anyway...

[Babylon]

Just now, Chocolate Teapot said:

Completely agree with this - a front 3 that contribute 45-50 goals a season is the way forward reducing the focus on one individual.

Ha I think 45-50 would be on the high side. We'd be doing well to hit 45 from the front 3 (that's still good). 

 

Barnes 15   Striker 15    Right winger 10

 

                   Maddison 10 

 

Leaves you with 15/20 goals to get from others to get you 65/70 goals, which would usually get you top 6 with a decent defence. 

[Collymore]

9 minutes ago, Babylon said:

You replace Vardy by getting a right winger and a striker who contribute goals, not just a replacement Striker. 

Or get Domenico Beradi from Sassuolo who can do both. 

 

**Disclaimer - he's said he doesn't want to move from Italy.

[Babylon]

It's his talismanic presence on the pitch that's harder to replace. 

[Unabomber]

I think Iheanacho will step up 

[TheUltimateWinner]

21 minutes ago, Babylon said:

You replace Vardy by getting a right winger and a striker who contribute goals, not just a replacement Striker. 

Exactly this. We’ve already started replacing Vardy by improving Barnes’s output.

[StriderHiryu]

19 minutes ago, Babylon said:

Ha I think 45-50 would be on the high side. We'd be doing well to hit 45 from the front 3 (that's still good). 

 

Barnes 15   Striker 15    Right winger 10

 

                   Maddison 10 

 

Leaves you with 15/20 goals to get from others to get you 65/70 goals, which would usually get you top 6 with a decent defence. 

Yep this sort of configuration is more realistic. 20 goal a season strikers are exceptionally hard to come by. I think we've only really had 3 in our club history; Chandler, Lineker and Vardy. The first two also played when the league had more games to play and so more chances to score too.

 

It's not impossible we sign / develop another one at some point in the future, but because we aren't a club that can go and buy a ready made striker it's unlikely if not impossible that we replace a 20 goal a season striker with another one immediately. I think back to when Ferguson signed Van Persie to essentially win his last league title. We will never make that type of signing, IE player at their peak and already proven to be one of the best in the world and ready to go. 

[shen]

21 minutes ago, Babylon said:

It's his talismanic presence on the pitch that's harder to replace. 

Not to mention his character in the dressing room. You need a jokester or two around

[Dahnsouff]

25 minutes ago, Babylon said:

It's his talismanic presence on the pitch that's harder to replace. 

Bingo