These are the reasons why Jamie Vardy has snubbed Arsenal... and it’s no surprise he has

QUITE why Jamie Vardy’s decision to snub Arsenal and the bright lights of London baffles so many people is, well... baffling in itself.

By Dave Armitage

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SNUB: VARDY HAS REJECTED ARSENAL

Vardy is not your normal Premier League star who sees heading for a bigger club as a no-brainer.

He’s 30 in January, just married with a young family living in a beautiful house in Melton Mowbray.

Just as a side issue – Leicester have offered him a £5m a year four-year deal which will absolutely set him up for life.

This guy knows the value of a quid more than most. He’s come through the school of hard knocks and hasn’t been spoilt by the pampering of coming through a cossetted academy.

It’s not that long ago that the England hitman was earning £30 a game with non-League Stocksbridge Steels in Sheffield and combining that with back-breaking 12-hour shifts at a factory making carbon fibre splints.

I’m honestly not sure how long and hard Vardy had to mull things over before coming to the decision that Arsenal was not for him. Probably not that long...

Their interest would be flattering for sure and has certainly done him no harm in getting a new £100,000-a-week mega deal from the club where he is, quite rightly, a legend.

One person said to me that he couldn’t understand it because he could pick up more trophies at Arsenal.

Well, there’s only one real answer to that though it’s a reply that still beggars belief in a way.

He wouldn’t be going to Arsenal to get his hands on a Premier League title winner’s medal – he's just bagged one.

Leicester are the current champions – and in no small part due to his astonishing plundering of goals – 24 to be exact.

And yes, Arsenal can offer him Champions League football. Well, again, he’ll have that with Leicester this coming season too.

Had Vardy been 21 then chances are the lure of a massive club like Arsenal might have been too great.

But, he’s 30 in January and the deal that Leicester have put on the table means that his career is guaranteed until he’s 34 when he’ll have banked something in the region of £20m.

A switch to the Emirates is not going to improve his England chances either – he’s already shown that.

Vardy staying at Leicester really isn’t that much of a surprise at all when you weight it all up.

The only factory Vardy can see these days is the chocolate factory – and he’s just been handed the keys.