comment by True Blue (U9486)
posted 40 minutes ago
"What I will say is this - for a player to come out and state his loyalty to the club on two occasions before engineering a move is a disgrace. He should have at least not nailed his blue colours to the mast and been non committal when asked about his future."
Lets wait and see what happens before we cast him as a Judas.
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I'd go further, he's been an integral part of delivering Leicester's best ever season. He's 29, if he wants to try and get his last big move, whether for glory or financial reasons, then fair play to him - he's earned it.
A footballer's career is short and he's approaching the twilight of his, and I wouldn't want to look back in later years on an untaken opportunity to join one of the biggest clubs in the world and wonder 'What if?'
I'd be disappointed to see him leave of course, but he'd go with my best wishes.
I know but 1 he's English so immediately there's more scrutiny involved with any indecision on staying or leaving - look at sterling last season. Wouldn't sign a new contract and refused to come out and pledge his future to Liverpool and whilst I have no real sympathy for him due to the way he conducted himself, he was being bashed from pillar to post by the press, particularly if he'd had a poor game. Perhaps vardy learned from this.
Also 2 vardy hardly seems like the brightest tool in the shed, even by footballers standards. He probably thought everyone would have forgotten about what he'd said.
Brightest tool in the shed?? Wtf is that?
Sharpest*
Nuneaton - I agree with you except for the fact that he didn't need to come out only last month and say that he wants to stay. He didn't need to make grand statements in Feb about his paying back the loyalty in him shown by the club and that his future is with Leicester
It's not that I wouldn't understand the reasons for moving, but no one forced him to make those statements. He sat there only 3 weeks ago in a press conference saying that he wants to stay. Why on earth say that when you know that your agent is hawking you around to the top clubs?
He clearly didn't want to stay if his reps negotiated such a clause in and were alerting Arsenal to his availability.
Just don't lead the fans a merry dance is all I'm saying - don't say one thing and then do another. And before people make out its just part and parcel of football, I honestly can't think of another situation quite like this one.
The club more than doubled his wages only 15 weeks ago with some excessive add ons as I understand it. Is this move coming from Vardy or is he being pushed by his agent?
comment by JL070809 (U11622)
posted 3 hours, 29 minutes ago
He will also have to win over a whole new set of supporters, and without meaning to cause offence, Arsenal fans would never accept the lad who used to work in a factory and played non league football, that sort of player is beneath North London supporters.
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What the actual faaaaaark?!?
comment by Blackstarr (U12353)
posted 21 minutes ago
Nuneaton - I agree with you except for the fact that he didn't need to come out only last month and say that he wants to stay. He didn't need to make grand statements in Feb about his paying back the loyalty in him shown by the club and that his future is with Leicester
It's not that I wouldn't understand the reasons for moving, but no one forced him to make those statements. He sat there only 3 weeks ago in a press conference saying that he wants to stay. Why on earth say that when you know that your agent is hawking you around to the top clubs?
He clearly didn't want to stay if his reps negotiated such a clause in and were alerting Arsenal to his availability.
Just don't lead the fans a merry dance is all I'm saying - don't say one thing and then do another. And before people make out its just part and parcel of football, I honestly can't think of another situation quite like this one.
The club more than doubled his wages only 15 weeks ago with some excessive add ons as I understand it. Is this move coming from Vardy or is he being pushed by his agent?
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BS - I note your comments but it's football, it happens. If this transfer goes ahead then it won't make any difference to what I think of him, and the debt of gratitude we owe for helping to deliver Leicester's best season ever.
I can see you feel differently, but there wouldn't be any bitter taste in my mouth.
Fair enough Nuneaton but can you think of a similar case to this one? A high profile player signs a new deal, publicly says he wants to stay and reward the loyalty shown in him and then engineers a move 15 weeks later?? (If he does leave of course)
Give me some like for like examples and I'll believe this is just part and parcel of football. Don't confuse this with a berahino to Spurs situation or even sterling to man city. Neither players signed a new contract weeks earlier and committed their futures publicly.
That is what makes this, even by football standards, unusual. It makes me think that It's his agent who wants a move and is convincing the player to leave a club where he is happy? Or that Vardy has been playing the fans all along.....
Happened in rugby league a few years back.
Back when sonny bill williams was playing for the bulldogs, signed a bumper contract making him the highest paid player in the league then two weeks later walked out and joined a French rugby union side.
Not football, but it's a common trend amongst modern day sport now, unfortunately.
Sounds like it's imminent then BS?
comment by CDUBYA (U17121)
posted 41 minutes ago
Sounds like it's imminent then BS?
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It's definitely got legs this one and by all accounts it may need to happen within the next 48 hours according to some detail in his release clause and the fact Roy wants transfer dealings done before the euros
He's asked for the release clause so you would think he wants the move or his agent does
Woy can want whatever he wants but it has nothing to do with him. This is between Arsenal, Leicester, and Leicester city's player.
If it happens to be an inconvenience to woy then tough titties.
comment by Tiddles LFC (U17634)
posted 1 minute ago
Woy can want whatever he wants but it has nothing to do with him. This is between Arsenal, Leicester, and Leicester city's player.
If it happens to be an inconvenience to woy then tough titties.
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Vardy will want it done and dusted asap as well you would have thought. He isn't going to want that dragging on through the euros.
If there is a deal to be done then the reports suggest it will be done by Monday am. Ranieri has confirmed the bid this morning and talks have begun
I wonder what's going through the minds of aspiring season ticket holders for the coming season, the intention being that they would be laying down their hard earned cash hoping to see Vardy trotting out at the start of the new season.
There will be all those who worshipped him last year, splashed the dosh-in large quantities-over the past 6-10 months on merchandise bearing his name only to contemplate throwing it on to an unwanted pile of linen. They will, indeed, be frustrated if not angry and who can blame them if they are.
If he wants to go then so be it-the scouts will already have done or be in the process of finding an adequate replacement. If we lose Vardy and perhaps one other then I should hope the club will draw the line there. I do not want to see City turn into some Burnleyesque conveyor belt from years gone by (though finances were behind their need to sell to survive-not the case at the KP), producing stars from nothing and pushing them out. Were that ever to be the case my interest in the club would wane without a doubt.
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Not really sure if Vardy's speedy style would fit into Arsenal's practice of taking about five minutes to move the ball up the field?
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posted on 4/6/16
comment by True Blue (U9486)
posted 40 minutes ago
"What I will say is this - for a player to come out and state his loyalty to the club on two occasions before engineering a move is a disgrace. He should have at least not nailed his blue colours to the mast and been non committal when asked about his future."
Lets wait and see what happens before we cast him as a Judas.
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I'd go further, he's been an integral part of delivering Leicester's best ever season. He's 29, if he wants to try and get his last big move, whether for glory or financial reasons, then fair play to him - he's earned it.
A footballer's career is short and he's approaching the twilight of his, and I wouldn't want to look back in later years on an untaken opportunity to join one of the biggest clubs in the world and wonder 'What if?'
I'd be disappointed to see him leave of course, but he'd go with my best wishes.
posted on 4/6/16
I know but 1 he's English so immediately there's more scrutiny involved with any indecision on staying or leaving - look at sterling last season. Wouldn't sign a new contract and refused to come out and pledge his future to Liverpool and whilst I have no real sympathy for him due to the way he conducted himself, he was being bashed from pillar to post by the press, particularly if he'd had a poor game. Perhaps vardy learned from this.
Also 2 vardy hardly seems like the brightest tool in the shed, even by footballers standards. He probably thought everyone would have forgotten about what he'd said.
posted on 4/6/16
Brightest tool in the shed?? Wtf is that?
Sharpest*
posted on 4/6/16
Nuneaton - I agree with you except for the fact that he didn't need to come out only last month and say that he wants to stay. He didn't need to make grand statements in Feb about his paying back the loyalty in him shown by the club and that his future is with Leicester
It's not that I wouldn't understand the reasons for moving, but no one forced him to make those statements. He sat there only 3 weeks ago in a press conference saying that he wants to stay. Why on earth say that when you know that your agent is hawking you around to the top clubs?
He clearly didn't want to stay if his reps negotiated such a clause in and were alerting Arsenal to his availability.
Just don't lead the fans a merry dance is all I'm saying - don't say one thing and then do another. And before people make out its just part and parcel of football, I honestly can't think of another situation quite like this one.
The club more than doubled his wages only 15 weeks ago with some excessive add ons as I understand it. Is this move coming from Vardy or is he being pushed by his agent?
posted on 4/6/16
comment by JL070809 (U11622)
posted 3 hours, 29 minutes ago
He will also have to win over a whole new set of supporters, and without meaning to cause offence, Arsenal fans would never accept the lad who used to work in a factory and played non league football, that sort of player is beneath North London supporters.
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What the actual faaaaaark?!?
posted on 4/6/16
comment by Blackstarr (U12353)
posted 21 minutes ago
Nuneaton - I agree with you except for the fact that he didn't need to come out only last month and say that he wants to stay. He didn't need to make grand statements in Feb about his paying back the loyalty in him shown by the club and that his future is with Leicester
It's not that I wouldn't understand the reasons for moving, but no one forced him to make those statements. He sat there only 3 weeks ago in a press conference saying that he wants to stay. Why on earth say that when you know that your agent is hawking you around to the top clubs?
He clearly didn't want to stay if his reps negotiated such a clause in and were alerting Arsenal to his availability.
Just don't lead the fans a merry dance is all I'm saying - don't say one thing and then do another. And before people make out its just part and parcel of football, I honestly can't think of another situation quite like this one.
The club more than doubled his wages only 15 weeks ago with some excessive add ons as I understand it. Is this move coming from Vardy or is he being pushed by his agent?
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BS - I note your comments but it's football, it happens. If this transfer goes ahead then it won't make any difference to what I think of him, and the debt of gratitude we owe for helping to deliver Leicester's best season ever.
I can see you feel differently, but there wouldn't be any bitter taste in my mouth.
posted on 4/6/16
Fair enough Nuneaton but can you think of a similar case to this one? A high profile player signs a new deal, publicly says he wants to stay and reward the loyalty shown in him and then engineers a move 15 weeks later?? (If he does leave of course)
Give me some like for like examples and I'll believe this is just part and parcel of football. Don't confuse this with a berahino to Spurs situation or even sterling to man city. Neither players signed a new contract weeks earlier and committed their futures publicly.
That is what makes this, even by football standards, unusual. It makes me think that It's his agent who wants a move and is convincing the player to leave a club where he is happy? Or that Vardy has been playing the fans all along.....
posted on 4/6/16
Happened in rugby league a few years back.
Back when sonny bill williams was playing for the bulldogs, signed a bumper contract making him the highest paid player in the league then two weeks later walked out and joined a French rugby union side.
Not football, but it's a common trend amongst modern day sport now, unfortunately.
posted on 4/6/16
Sounds like it's imminent then BS?
posted on 4/6/16
comment by CDUBYA (U17121)
posted 41 minutes ago
Sounds like it's imminent then BS?
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It's definitely got legs this one and by all accounts it may need to happen within the next 48 hours according to some detail in his release clause and the fact Roy wants transfer dealings done before the euros
He's asked for the release clause so you would think he wants the move or his agent does
posted on 4/6/16
Woy can want whatever he wants but it has nothing to do with him. This is between Arsenal, Leicester, and Leicester city's player.
If it happens to be an inconvenience to woy then tough titties.
posted on 4/6/16
comment by Tiddles LFC (U17634)
posted 1 minute ago
Woy can want whatever he wants but it has nothing to do with him. This is between Arsenal, Leicester, and Leicester city's player.
If it happens to be an inconvenience to woy then tough titties.
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Vardy will want it done and dusted asap as well you would have thought. He isn't going to want that dragging on through the euros.
If there is a deal to be done then the reports suggest it will be done by Monday am. Ranieri has confirmed the bid this morning and talks have begun
posted on 4/6/16
I wonder what's going through the minds of aspiring season ticket holders for the coming season, the intention being that they would be laying down their hard earned cash hoping to see Vardy trotting out at the start of the new season.
There will be all those who worshipped him last year, splashed the dosh-in large quantities-over the past 6-10 months on merchandise bearing his name only to contemplate throwing it on to an unwanted pile of linen. They will, indeed, be frustrated if not angry and who can blame them if they are.
If he wants to go then so be it-the scouts will already have done or be in the process of finding an adequate replacement. If we lose Vardy and perhaps one other then I should hope the club will draw the line there. I do not want to see City turn into some Burnleyesque conveyor belt from years gone by (though finances were behind their need to sell to survive-not the case at the KP), producing stars from nothing and pushing them out. Were that ever to be the case my interest in the club would wane without a doubt.
posted on 4/6/16
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posted on 4/6/16
Not really sure if Vardy's speedy style would fit into Arsenal's practice of taking about five minutes to move the ball up the field?
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