Leicester City celebrity Jamie Vardy snubbed Arsenal again in 2016 after conversations together with his England team-mates at Euro 2016.
The Evening Standard reviews. that Arsenal wished to signal the Englishman after an extraordinary season at Leicester in 2016, the place Vardy scored 24 league targets in Leicester's unbelievable run to Premier League glory.
However, regardless of the temptation of a vital pay rise - in addition to the truth that the Gunners triggered the £20m launch clause in his contract, Vardy turned down a transfer to the Emirates, and signed a new four-year cope with Leicester based mostly on the recommendation he obtained from the England camp at Euro 2016.
Ahead of his journey to Russia with England this summer time, Vardy advised the Evening Standard: “It wasn’t an irritation. There was simply a lot of time after we had been in our rooms to consider it. It wasn’t one thing you could possibly simply put to the again of your thoughts.
“But I made my determination again then and I’ve not seemed again since, carried on, performed my soccer, been doing effectively for my membership and I believe that’s what’s bought me the chance the place I can go to a World Cup.
“The Euros was a new experience for me and the World Cup is going to be but obviously the Euros is a major tournament as well and you know exactly what you’ve got coming so you can be more relaxed about it knowing I have been there before.”
Vardy has not too long ago been linked with Europa League champions Atletico Madrid as Diego Simeone appears for a new talisman, with Antoine Griezmann anticipated to depart for Barcelona within the coming weeks.
But the 31-year-old insists he's solely centered on the World Cup in Russia and Vardy adopted captain Harry Kane’s lead by claiming Gareth Southgate’s younger aspect ought to harbour aspirations of successful the match.
“The boss has picked a lot of players who are in form and rightly so,” he mentioned. “They need to have their call-up and he's going for it. It is a younger squad, something can occur and everybody desires to be going on the market in our heads pondering we will win it.
“But we have to be on our game every day, making sure we are at 100 per cent and working to get as far as possible.”
Only time will inform if Vardy will probably be tempted as soon as once more to depart the King Power Stadium, however Southgate will probably be hoping that he'll come into the World Cup with a fresh mindset this time round.