Tag: Vardy

20 June 2025 Off

Jamie Vardy, Christian Eriksen, Ashley Young – the Premier League free agents available

By Total Football News

The summer transfer window is in full swing and Premier League clubs are busy strengthening their squads ready for the start of the 2025-26 season, which starts on 15 August when champions Liverpool play Bournemouth at Anfield.

There have already been some big deals struck.

Liverpool have agreed a £116m deal to sign Germany attacking midfielder Florian Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen, and are in talks to sign Bournemouth’s Hungary left-back

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18 May 2025 Off

Leicester City 2-0 Ipswich Town: Jamie Vardy scores 200th Leicester goal in farewell win

By Total Football News

Jamie Vardy signed off at Leicester City in trademark style as he scored his 200th goal for the Foxes in a 2-0 victory over Ipswich Town.

The 38-year-old striker netted his 10th goal of the season as the hosts eased past the Tractor Boys in his 500th – and final – appearance for the club.

Vardy, the last of Leicester’s historic title winners from 2016 still at City, will leave

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3 May 2025 Off

Leicester City 2-0 Southampton: Jamie Vardy scores in Foxes win

By Total Football News

Jamie Vardy scored his 199th goal for Leicester City to help the Foxes beat bottom side Southampton 2-0 at King Power Stadium.

Vardy, who will end his 13-year stay with Leicester when his contract expires in the summer, has three games left this season to reach the 200-goal milestone.

The former England striker swept his strike into the roof of the net after 17 minutes – scoring Leicester’s first home

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26 April 2025 Off

Wolves 3-0 Leicester City: Matheus Cunha stars in Premier League win as Jamie Vardy misses a penalty

By Total Football News

Matheus Cunha inspired Wolves to blow away Leicester as the in-form hosts recorded a sixth consecutive Premier League victory.

The striker scored one and made goals for Jorgen Strand Larsen and Rodrigo Gomes as Wolves made it six straight top-flight wins for the first time since 1970.

Wolves goalkeeper Jose Sa saved Jamie Vardy’s second-half penalty as the Foxes’ goal woes continued.

It means the striker remains on 198 goals

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24 April 2025 Off

Jamie Vardy: Leicester City Premier League title winner will leave a legacy

By Total Football News

“He is obviously the greatest ever Leicester player,” former team-mate Marc Albrighton told BBC Sport.

“Everything he’s achieved individually and with the team will never be forgotten by the Leicester fans and the club. It’s going to be be tough for everyone because people have grown up watching him. It will take some getting used to not having him around the club.”

Vardy has scored 198 times in 496 appearances

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24 April 2025 Off

Jamie Vardy: Leicester City captain to leave club at end of the season

By Total Football News

Leicester City captain Jamie Vardy will leave the club at the end of the season.

Announcing the news on Wednesday, the Foxes described Vardy as “our greatest ever player”.

The 38-year-old striker, who joined in 2012 from non-league side Fleetwood Town, is the club’s record Premier League scorer with 143, and in all competitions has scored 198 goals in 498 appearances.

Vardy scored 24 times in the 2015-16 Premier League

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21 April 2025 Off

Jamie Vardy: Leicester City captain apologises for ’embarrassing’ season

By Total Football News

Leicester City captain Jamie Vardy has described his club’s season as “miserable” and a “total embarrassment” after their relegation from the Premier League.

Leicester’s 1-0 defeat by Liverpool on Sunday confirmed an immediate return to the Championship, meaning they have been relegated from the top flight in two of the past three seasons.

“No words I have can ever express my feelings of anger and sadness with the way this

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27 January 2025 Off

Tottenham Hotspur 1-2 Leicester City: Jamie Vardy scores as Foxes stun Spurs

By Total Football News

If Postecoglou has been feeling the heat, spare a thought for Van Nistelrooy.

The Dutchman had guided Leicester to just one league victory in nine matches since taking the hot seat at King Power Stadium.

His Leicester side had lost seven league games on the bounce, and defeat in north London would have seen them match a club record of eight consecutive defeats, which was set in 2001.

Reports in

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8 December 2024 Off

Leicester City 2-2 Brighton: Jamie Vardy inspires late fightback for hosts

By Total Football News

Leicester produced a stunning comeback to maintain new boss Ruud van Nistelrooy’s unbeaten start in an enthralling draw with Brighton.

After falling two goals behind in the second half, captain Jamie Vardy halved the deficit in the 86th minute with a trademark finish for his sixth goal of the season.

The drama did not end there as substitute Bobby De Cordova-Reid netted his first of the campaign in added time

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