Jamie Vardy: England striker signs four-year extension with Leicester City
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Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy has signed a new four-year deal with the 2016 Premier League champions.
The 31-year-old has scored 88 goals for the Foxes since moving to the King Power from Fleetwood Town in 2012.
"Everybody knows how I feel about playing for this club," said Vardy, who added that his time with Leicester has been an "incredible journey".
"It's a great feeling to know that I can look forward to another four years as a Leicester City player."
The Sheffield-born striker scored 23 goals in all competitions for the club last term, resulting in his selection for England's World Cup squad.
Vardy made four appearances for Gareth Southgate's men as they reached the semi-finals, including a start against Belgium in the group stages.
The announcement of Vardy's new deal came on the same day the club reached an agreement with Freiburg to sign Turkey defender Caglar Soyuncu and completed a deal for Filip Benkovic, 21, from Dinamo Zagreb.
Soyuncu, 22, has agreed a five-year deal in a move that is worth up to a reported £19m but is subject to him being granted a work permit. Benkovic, signed for a fee of around £13m, also agreed a five-year deal.
Leicester begin their domestic campaign on Friday 10 August in the Premier League curtain-raiser against Manchester United at Old Trafford.
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From a Newport County fan (not sure why its relevant, but loads of other people do it on these posts...)
I admire his loyalty to Leicester. He has been a great servant and is hugely respected by the club and fans.
Most Liverpool players over the last 20 odd years would love to have reached that level.
And fair play to LCFC, he could have left for a ‘bigger’ club’ and he will go down as a club legend!
He better now score a few against manu
- 36 games 24 goals
- 35 games 13 goals
- 37 games 20 goals
Hardly a one season wonder. He's on 62 PL goals now and I hope he's gets another 38 so he can join the 100 PL club on Sky and have his highlights programme.
He's not a fluke, excellent model professional who's worked his way up.
got two new defenders in (once Soyuncu's work permit goes through), kept hold of maguire who man utd were after but held firm as I thought and to top it off our top striker in premier league signs a new contract with us!! :D
absolutely love you vardy, you won our hearts forever and always will be a LCFC legend!!