Jamie Vardy will leave Leicester City.
The captain and legend of the 'Foxes' has decided to bid farewell to the club after 13 years of faithful service. Thus, an era in the Premier League comes to an end. Now, he prepares to leave the club and get ready for the next chapter of a career filled with successes and records.
Vardy leaves Leicester in a season that certainly will not be remembered as extraordinary for the Foxes, who have already been mathematically relegated to the Championship with four matches still to go: 18 points accumulated in the Premier League, the result of just four wins, six draws, and no fewer than twenty-four defeats. The -18 point gap from 17th-placed West Ham highlights all the difficulties faced by Leicester in the 2024/25 season, their first year back in the Premier League after being relegated at the end of the 2022/23 season.
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Records and a lot of success for Jamie Vardy
An era, as we said, filled with unthinkable successes and rewritten records. Vardy scored 198 goals and provided 69 assists in nearly 500 appearances with the Foxes, matches in which he won the 2015/16 Premier League under Claudio Ranieri, the 2020/21 FA Cup, the 2021 Community Shield, and two Championship titles. Trophies that had never been achieved before in the history of the English club, a club in which Vardy managed to score in 11 consecutive Premier League matches – the only player in history to do so – and also became the oldest top scorer ever in the English top flight, winning the Golden Boot in the 2019/20 season thanks to 23 goals scored in 35 appearances.
Not bad for a player who arrived for just one million pounds from Fleetwood in 2012.
But now? What will the future hold for Vardy?
Let's start again from his farewell statements to Leicester:
"I want to keep playing and doing what I enjoy doing most, scoring goals. Hopefully there is one or two more for Leicester between now and the end of the season, and many more in the future. I might be 38 but I’ve still got the desire and ambition to achieve so much more."
An obsession, like every great striker must have. But where could he go to keep hitting the net?
Who can sign him?
In the Premier League, there could be opportunities with some clubs potentially interested in the performances of the striker born in 1987, who will turn 39 next January 11.
Clearly, much will depend on the player's own will, as he is deeply tied to Leicester the city and the club, of which he is the undisputed symbol of an unimaginable era of success.
At 38 years old, the sirens of Saudi Arabia and MLS in the United States might start to sound, but for a striker who has declared he still has the ambition to be important, such options may not truly ignite his spirit.
There’s also the romantic possibility of playing for Sheffield Wednesday, a Championship club that will face Leicester next season and the club Vardy has supported since he was a child — being born in the Hillsborough area. There are many possibilities, with a provocative question to raise: wouldn't any Serie A club need Jamie?
Why not Serie A? Could Milan be an option for Jamie Vardy?
At the current state of things, it’s premature to think of Vardy’s future in Italy. In the past, there had been some flirting with the Bel Paese, involving Como: the Leicester player knows the owners of the Lombard club well, the Indonesian brothers Robert and Michael Hartono, and relations have always been excellent. For this reason, the idea of bringing Vardy to Italy had been born, an option that was never realized nor became concrete. But why not dream? He is the embodiment of the saying “aging like fine wine,” as shown by the 110 goals (compared to the previous 95) he scored after the age of 30, as described by Calciomercato.com.
Any top Italian club would strengthen by having a striker with these characteristics, capable of contributing a goal every three matches in his last season at Leicester. He would be an excellent replacement for clubs at the top of the table (Juventus, Milan, Roma, and Inter are all monitoring the attacking market), but also a starter for a team fighting to avoid relegation, including the newly promoted sides.
Vardy has the kind of experience to be decisive in any context in our league: from Sassuolo to Parma, from Udinese to Torino, from Cagliari to Lazio, any club in Serie A could benefit from the hunger and determination of a 38-year-old who — judging by his technical skills — could certainly make his mark in a league like Serie A, a competition with a strong tradition of strikers and unexpected, spectacular market moves (see Ribery at Salernitana).
And so why not consider it? The question remains: couldn't this Vardy be useful in Serie A?
