Jamie Vardy

Quoted from mimma

Halifax got £50,000 for Vardy when he signed for Fleetwood.

We got Hearn, who scored his goals a division higher, for free.

Hindsight is wonder full stuff.

Vardy went for a lot more than 50k

whilst the numbers you provide might not prove it Vardy has been exceptional for Leicester this year, far better than most, yes most Premier league strikers, certainly outperforming those at the top 4, even if his goals or assists ratio don't show that.  I doubted he would get a call up as England are blessed in this department and suffer in midfield and central defence.

Interestingly Vardy is the only player  ever to have scored against.both.....

Scum Utd and ..................................FC United.

If you need a player to come on and run his bottom off or indeed put a huge shift in when you know Welbeck or Sturridge or indeed Rooney couldn't be arsed you know that Vardy will do it EVERY SINGLE TIME.  

I always hope every England call up meets expectation as it's better to have too many choices than not enough.

Quoted from LH

He looks like he'd stink of Lynx Africa and WKD but I bet he's got good banter. LAD.

Quoted from mariner2000

whilst the numbers you provide might not prove it Vardy has been exceptional for Leicester this year, far better than most, yes most Premier league strikers, certainly outperforming those at the top 4, even if his goals or assists ratio don't show that.  I doubted he would get a call up as England are blessed in this department and suffer in midfield and central defence.

Interestingly Vardy is the only player  ever to have scored against.both.....

Scum Utd and ..................................FC United.

If you need a player to come on and run his bottom off or indeed put a huge shift in when you know Welbeck or Sturridge or indeed Rooney couldn't be arsed you know that Vardy will do it EVERY SINGLE TIME.  

I always hope every England call up meets expectation as it's better to have too many choices than not enough.

I don't think you can claim Welbeck is never arsed, Rooney also usually works very hard. And I know which one I'd have out of Vardy and Sturridge every time provided Sturridge wasn't injured. How the hell you can claim he has been "far better than most PL strikers" is beyond me when he's not even in the top 50 leading scorers. Utterly ridiculous comment. I appreciate there is more to playing up front than just scoring but if you're also not getting that many assists then you're not providing anything more than a lot of effort which is what you get from most strikers as a minimum. Are you his agent or something?

There were 13 English strikers who scored more than him this season FFS, he most certainly wasn't performing "far better" than them.

Ian Wright was playing non-league for Greenwich when he was signed by Crystal Palace. Being non-league doesn't mean the end of the world for a player, only for clubs.

I think Vardy is miles and miles away from what we would all hope the England international standard is.

But considering we've got strikers made of glass (Carroll and Sturridge) and least two dropping down to the Under 21's (Kane and Berahino)...who else is there?

Even of the four he's called up with Austin has had fits and starts of form, Rooney has spent most of the season in midfield and Welbeck has been in and out of the Arsenal team.

Yes he's well down the pecking order and it's representative of the options available, yes he looks an absolute bell but who else was Hodgson supposed to call up?  

I wonder if Shouty has been on the phone to congratulate him?

Bloody hell I'm glad we're shut of that arrogant, obnoxious sharp object!

One things for certain, it can't have been easy for Vardy to tell the lads he was bailing on Magaluf 2015.

Welbeck has scored 6 goals in his last 6 appearances for England. Rooney has scored 7 goals in his last 8 appearances for England. Providing they are both fit, they will start the Slovenia game so it wouldn't surprise me to see Vardy and Austin play a significant part in the friendly against Ireland. However, if both games were qualifiers, I don't doubt that Kane and Berahino would have been kept in the senior squad in place of Vardy and Austin.

In fact, should there be any injury issues, these two will certainly be called up to the senior squad from the U-21s for the Slovenia game.

Longer-term, I'd have thought Danny Ings would be more likely to find a regular place in the senior squad than either Austin or Vardy.

Ings has struggled a bit since Xmas though.  His goalscoring return this season isn't exactly the stuff to get excited about.  

I agree that he's more likely to feature in future squads than Vardy though.  

I'm pleased that we actually appear to  be paying a bit more than lip service to the Under 21 tournament with a handful of lads who have got legitimate shouts for the full squad getting called up.