Rejecting Arsenal was an easy decision: Vardy

LONDON: Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy has revealed it was easy for him to reject an offer from Arsenal and stay at the reigning English Premier League (EPL)

Published on: Sep 5, 2016, 07:37:07 IST

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LONDON: Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy has revealed it was easy for him to reject an offer from Arsenal and stay at the reigning English Premier League (EPL) champions as both his “head and heart” wanted him to stay with Leicester.

Vardy played a starring role in Leicester’s fairytale run to their maiden EPL title last season. He was offered a lucrative offer by Arsenal during the off-season.

“I was in a hotel room [in Chantilly] for so many hours of every day with nothing to do. You had a lot of time on your hands. I am not going to beat around the bush — every time I thought about it, and every aspect of it I thought about, both my head and my heart were saying to stay at Leicester, which is why I made my decision to stay,” Vardy was quoted as saying by the Guardian on Saturday.

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