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Jamie Vardy

Ray

That makes no sense, he would have considered everything before going this far. If there is a u turn it must be over money.

goon

Despite still being less than what we're offering the counter offer from Leicester probably took money out of the equation and made it harder to break the emotional attachment.

Biggus

Okay I'm starting to be disappointed and bitterly disillusioned again, we won't sign Vardy there will be no intriguing change of approach from Wenger just the same old boring shit.

It's the hope that kills you.

QuincyAbeyie

So if Vardy says yes to our offer it means Wenger is changing his approach, and if he says no it means he isn't. Interesting way of looking at it.

Qwiss

There wont be a change in his approach unless we actually sign a striker. If we miss Vardy and give up it would very much mean a typical Wenger summer.

y va marquer

Yep, pure undiluted Weng - a midfielder and a CB that nobody has ever really noted before.

Biggus

Quincy Abeyie wrote:
So if Vardy says yes to our offer it means Wenger is changing his approach, and if he says no it means he isn't. Interesting way of looking at it.

There was a slim chance, logically it made sense why he went for Vardy.
He probably would have played him on the wing until Welbeck was fit for his 5 games a year though.
Anyway its a moot point, it seems we can't even attract Leicester players.
The next time someone says that without Wenger we won't be able to attract star players I'm going to tell them to stfu.

SimplyThePest

Given the circumstances, why would he come to Arsenal?

QuincyAbeyie

We're probably the best club in the world that wants him and can offer him a better salary.

Henry14th

Plus he has a realistic chance of playing a lot more than 6 career Champions League matches.

I know we don't exactly representing ourselves very well in Europe but atleast we try every year.

Not sure if anyone here thinks that Leicester will be competing for a top 4 spot next season.

Klaus

It depends a lot on what they do this summer, but I think they will be in the top 6 at least when everything's said and done. Establishing themselves thereabouts is a longterm project though. They need a bigger and deeper squad next season, and this is their window of opportunity. As league winners they'll have access to players in the transfer market that wouldn't give them a second thought in any other summer.

Losing Vardy is more about losing a symbol than losing someone they can't replace in that sense. He's arguably their best player but they're going to need breadth a lot more than individual greatness in the next 2-3 years if they want to stay in Europe. They need to get some longevity into the attack above all - both Vardy and Okazaki are nearly 30 now. Ulloa is turning 31.

SimplyThePest

Outside of money (and it seems that Leicester are prepared to match/beat our offer), what are we going to give him above and beyond what he's already got? I wouldn't join Arsenal, if I was him.

Burnwinter

That's a tiny bit pessimistic don't you think?

At Arsenal he'd be joining a number of top quality players at the financially sixth or seventh biggest club in the world, or whatever we are, with an immensely storied history and a higher probability of future success than at Leicester.

We may have lost some of our sheen in recent years but let's not imagine that once the drugs wear off the aberration of Leicester's 2015-16 win is going to determine the future.

SimplyThePest

I would say realistic but it's all a matter of different perspectives, isn't it? 🙂

I hear what you're saying but for all of the marketing fluff about Arsenal, the facts are that we do largely the same thing every year and don't really look like moving to that next level any time soon. Vardy's just won a league with Leicester (something I don't think he'd achieve with us if he joined), will play a bit of CL football this coming season, is likely to be paid equal/more than what we would offer and can further his status as a club legend there.

Gunner89

Likely to be paid more than what we could offer?

Get a grip mate.

Jed

I reckon we signed him already and all this drama is a ploy by all parties to make him look good in the eyes of LCFC fans.

If he's really staying, why would they bid big for Deeney? Not to mention the imminent signing of Ahmed Musa, who's a similar player to Vardy in terms of style.

invisibleman18

No way this is all a show, that's not how we do things.

Jed

Wenger waiting on a player to make up his mind, that's not how we do things either. He would've pulled out like he did with Higuain, a better striker.

goon

He didn't pull out of the Higuain deal because he was tired of waiting, if anything it was the other way around.

Vardy probably won't be starting for England and hopefully that's enough of an incentive to make him realise he needs to leave.

Biggus

Henry 14th wrote:
I know we don't exactly representing ourselves very well in Europe but at least we try every year.

😆 Do they give trophies for that now?

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