Jamie Vardy has reportedly rejected a move to Saudi Arabia following the relegation of Leicester City from the Premier League.
Vardy, 36, was approached by several clubs, including Khajeel FC, but he doesn’t consider the move to Saudi Arabia a right one for his family.
The Leicester man has one year left on his current contract at the King Power Stadium but had been identified by numerous Saudi Pro League clubs as a big-name signing.
Jamie Vardy played all of Leicester’s 38 Premier League games last season but one, he started 19 of them, and scored three league goals.
A lot of Premier League players have agreed to move to several Saudi Arabian clubs so far this summer, with Vardy being the latest to be pitched.
Edouard Mendy became the latest player to move to the Saudi Pro League when he left Chelsea to join Al-Ahli this week, after his former Blues teammates Kalidou Koulibaly and N’Golo Kante moved to the Eastern Side.
N’Golo Kante who was Vardy’s teammate at Leicester City has already signed for champions Al-Ittihad, joining the former Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema.
Koulibaly signed for Al-Hilal, the same club that tried to sign Lionel Messi earlier in the summer following his Paris Saint-Germain exit.
Recall we reported that Ruben Neves has also moved to Al-Hilal from Wolves in a £47million deal.
Hakim Ziyech’s transfer from Chelsea to Al-Nassr is reportedly in doubt after his medical highlighted a knee issue.
Jamie Vardy
The Englishman began his senior career with Stocksbridge Park Steels at age 16 after he was released by Sheffield Wednesday.
Vardy broke into the first team in 2007 and spent three seasons there before joining Northern Premier League Division club FC Halifax Town in 2010.
The striker won the club’s Players’ Player of the Year award after scoring 25 goals in his first season at the club.
He went on to score 31 league goals in his first season at his new team, winning the team’s Player of the Year award as they won the division.
Vardy later signed for Leicester City in the Championship in May 2012 for a non-League record transfer fee of £1 million and helped the team win the Championship in 2014.
The Englishman scored in eleven consecutive Premier League matches, in 2015/16, breaking Ruud van Nistelrooy’s record, and was voted the Premier League Player of the Season and FWA Footballer of the Year as Leicester won the title.
Khaleej FC
Khaleej Football Club is a Saudi Arabian multisports club and is located in Saihat, Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.
Khaleej Football Club is a Saudi Arabian multisport club and is located in Saihat, Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.
Khaleej FC is a sport, social, educational club and additionally, different teams in this club, categorized in different levels based on the age, play different sports.
Khaleej Club teams are football, handball, volleyball, basketball, tennis, table tennis, gymnastics, athletics, aquatics and others.
The club is well known for the handball team which played in different worldwide championships.
