Jamie Vardy Appreciation

[honeybradger]

Vardy in his prime struggled in shit sides (like all strikers do), look at the start of 16/17 and 18/19, even at his best 10-13 goals would be a good return in this current team with a full season. At the moment he's not starting every game and we're poor, I dont see why people are calling him finished because he's not scoring regularly. Under a new manager with a few good signings im sure he will be decent again, if not at the standard he used to be at.

[Tuna]

Couldn't outpace Tim Ream according to Pipes on RL.

[adam]

Finished. Bless him. 

When's his contract up? 

[GingerrrFox]

28 minutes ago, honeybradger said:

Vardy in his prime struggled in shit sides (like all strikers do), look at the start of 16/17 and 18/19, even at his best 10-13 goals would be a good return in this current team with a full season. At the moment he's not starting every game and we're poor, I dont see why people are calling him finished because he's not scoring regularly. Under a new manager with a few good signings im sure he will be decent again, if not at the standard he used to be at.

He’s a legend but let’s have it right, he’s been really poor for a while now. He’s on huge money, it’s not sustainable if age has caught up with him and he’s done at this level. 

[cruzFOX]

Have to accept now that Vardy is no longer our savior. Age has crept up on him and he is a shadow of the guy that used to terrorize defenders. just another sad chapter in a very long sad story that is our season.

[ozvaldo]

He’s more done than his Mrs in that trial. 
 

His threat (his lightening pace) has totally gone. He simply cannot play up top isolated by himself. Experienced back lines know exactly how to deal with him. He’s starting to look like that annoying competitive uncle who once got scouted at Under 15 level but never quite made it, got old, but still tries to join in with the kids at awkward family bbq’s to prove he’s “still got it”.  That’s fine and great, but not what I need from my should-be-qualifying-for-Europe premier league club. 
 

The issue we have is that Daka hasn’t really stepped up as his replacement. He’s far too nice and soft with his pressing and both his ability on the ball and passing decision making against premier league opposition is shit. 
And BR doesn’t seem to like Kelechi (despite his ridiculously impressive stats). 
 

And there’s no one else at the club. 
 

If we stay up, it would be best for everyone if he left in the summer so he goes out on a bit of a high, and we save £100k+ a week. 

[Sampson]

19 minutes ago, GingerrrFox said:

He’s a legend but let’s have it right, he’s been really poor for a while now. He’s on huge money, it’s not sustainable if age has caught up with him and he’s done at this level. 

He was still great last season tbf, he has looked past it this season sadly. Seemed to happen over the summer.

[KFS]

What worries me the most is that head dip before a sprint he does, like he’s doing absolutely everything to keep up with play. I think it might be over. Gutted. 

[Lesterlad]

He’s been poor for quite a while now. Fans cut him slack because of who he is. However what does he offer now? 

[foxfanazer]

8 minutes ago, Lesterlad said:

He’s been poor for quite a while now. Fans cut him slack because of who he is. However what does he offer now? 

Does he select himself?

[Dames]

Problem with Vardy is he has always been a confidence player. When its low he looks absolutely muck. 

 

The other problem is he's playing in a side completely bereft of any confidence or willingness to commit to attacking and he looks even worse because he is isolated.

 

He's not going to out pace anybody anymore but a fit and confident Vardy is good enough to get 10-15 goals a season still. The worry is that he's never going to get that confidence back before the decline fully catches up with him. 

[filbertway]

Still can't believe we gave the bloke an extension. It would have been absolutely fine to part ways at the end of this season if not last.

 

We really need to shake this obsession with holding onto players and overpaying them because we like them. The blokes done very well out of us and we've done very well out of him, the extension was so unnecessary. 

[Kilworthfox]

He is easily our best striker, he gets zero service. 

 

We should be setting up to service him rather than fanning around with the ball in our own half, and spraying it around 30 yards from their goal at a slow pace. 

 

How the he'll is he supposed to score when he has this type of football played behind him? 

[shade]

the main problem is that we create absolutely nothing of note for our strikers, whoever they are. I'll begrudgingly accept that his finishing has been poor this season, he's in a rut, but it's hardly as if he's been in front of goal regularly with the ball at his feet. finishing ability doesn't vanish like that with age and I don't accept that speed is the issue, it's woeful service combined with poor form.

[Freeman's Wharfer]

He’s done for if you’re looking for him to be the Vardy we’ve known and loved. 
 

You can see that now he doesn’t even back himself in a foot race. Things will open up and he’ll cut back inside or stop and turn on the ball.

 

But I believe in him to re-invent himself as a pure poacher type and get a decent number of goals that way. The problem is he’s in a team that’s not creating anything for him to poach.

[Fox92]

9 minutes ago, Kilworthfox said:

He is easily our best striker, he gets zero service. 

 

We should be setting up to service him rather than fanning around with the ball in our own half, and spraying it around 30 yards from their goal at a slow pace. 

 

How the he'll is he supposed to score when he has this type of football played behind him? 

This is said time and time again yet our strikers miss chances. Games this season that they should have scored. Chelsea away, for example, Vardy missed two good chances.

 

My biggest issue, as it always has been, is Rodgers' preference to persist with one up front. Even more so when that one striker is soon to be 36 years old. No other top flight team would persist like this. We needed a quality striker and we didn't get it, same issue as the right wing once Mahrez left.

Edited 4 January 2023 by Fox92

[Sampson]

21 minutes ago, filbertway said:

Still can't believe we gave the bloke an extension. It would have been absolutely fine to part ways at the end of this season if not last.

 

We really need to shake this obsession with holding onto players and overpaying them because we like them. The blokes done very well out of us and we've done very well out of him, the extension was so unnecessary. 

He had the best goals to minutes ratio in the entire division last season and we looked a different team with him in compared to Daka or Iheanacho and the stats back that up

 

Fair enough, he looks past it now, but it would’ve been ridiculously harsh to let him go last summer on the basis of last season

Edited 4 January 2023 by Sampson

[Fox92]

3 minutes ago, Sampson said:

He had the best goals to minutes ratio in the entire division last season and we looked a different team with him in compared to Daka or Iheanacho and the stats back that up

 

Fair enough, he looks past it now, but it would’ve been ridiculously harsh to let him go last summer on the basis of last season

Yep. He scored 15 league goals last season. The mistake we made was a two year contract at his age, it should have been one year. But that's hindight. People jumping on that now would have been so pleased in the summer when he signed for two years.

[Stevosevic]

He still has a use. 

[Stevosevic]

17 hours ago, adam said:

Finished. Bless him. 

When's his contract up? 

Signed a 1 year extension in the summer so it expires summer 2024 

[Stevosevic]

3 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

Yep. He scored 15 league goals last season. The mistake we made was a two year contract at his age, it should have been one year. But that's hindight. People jumping on that now would have been so pleased in the summer when he signed for two years.

It was a one year extension. He always contracted to 2023 so it was either let it run or extend for another year which we did. 

[Fox92]

Just now, Stevosevic said:

It was a one year extension. He always contracted to 2023 so it was either let it run or extend for another year which we did. 

Oh, fair play, thought we offered a two year as I thought his contract was up last year 2022.

[Vacamion]

 

He has a fantastic football brain, he sees stuff that others don't.

 

If he does nothing else (which would be a shame), he should be showing Patson, Kalechi and the youngsters where *he* would run, how *he* would pass and go, etc.

 

 

[Tommy G]

Finished at this level which is a shame, my favourite ever player alongside plenty of others who love him too. Can't run properly anymore, fluffs chances in front of goal (1 on 1 last night he would of scored a cpl of seasons ago). His contract extension was given out because hes a club legend, but we have 18 months left of him which is about £7m in wages, should of let his contact expire in the summer. 

 

Sentiment yes, but not for a club that is supposedly as cash strapped as ours. 

[coolhandfox]

To be honest, I'd hate to be a forward in our side,

 

According to the PL stats site, big chances missed. 

 

Vardy 5 (Goals 1) 

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Toney 12 (Goals 12)

Mitrovic 8 (Goals 11)

 

So you can roughly say we have create 6 decent chances for Vardy, meanwhile Brentford have created 24 for Toney and Fulham 19 for Mitrovic

 

 

 

 

Edited 4 January 2023 by coolhandfox