Rejecting Arsenal Was Easy

 

Jamie Vardy says there was no contest between heart and head when it came to the easy decision of turning down Arsenal over the summer. Vardy turned down a move to the Emirates Stadium after a superb season in winning the Premier League title with the Foxes and being named Football Writers' Association player of the year.

The 29years old went to Euro 2016 with England after his breakthrough domestic season and revealed he continually bumped in to Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger during the tournament as talk continued over an approach from the Gunners. Since then, he has signed a new deal with Leicester and says staying with the club that gave him his big break was an easy decision to make.

He said “I was in a hotel room for 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, which is why I made my decision to stay. Deep down if you don't think it is the right move for you, you don't do it. It is as simple as that. You get that much time to think about every single thing down to the tea lady. You think about what might happen, what might not, where you could be, where not. Every time I thought about every little thing, both head and heart were saying, 'You need to stay'. In my professional life it was the hardest decision. It was hard but, like I said, when it came to my head and my heart it was an easy decision. I spoke to Wenger a couple of times in the hotels we were in while we were in France. It was just, 'Hi, are you all right?', and walk off to the match. It was basically every hotel. I think he was doing French TV for the Euros. It wasn't awkward, it was just a simple, 'Hello, are you okay?' That kind of thing. It was a nice compliment they wanted to buy me. But my head and heart were saying stay.”