My thoughts about Vardy, totally removing any personal like or dislike about his character etc (which obviously is there)
He's not 31 till January, and due to having a REALLY late start at the top level in the game, basically not even playing - and importantly training at a 'league' level until 2012 - so when he was 25, he has very very little games in his legs - so given the common perception that the amount of games a player has played from an early age will ultimately see them risk fading younger, then he is very much an Ian Wright type - another who started very late, - Wright kept his pace and was competing at the very top level well into his mid 30's.
So for me - the fee of 40m? assuming it includes a substantial proportion in add ons - i could live with.
How often in games against the rs - home and away, against Spurs, Arsenal - Chelsea, City and United and some others away from home have we found ourselves for long parts or all the game effectively pinned back under pressure and just hanging on with no genuine outlet, one thing Vardy would give is a constant threat against all of those teams, and his scoring record against the 'big boys' kind of illustrates that.
Like with a target man, as well as what the player himself brings in terms of goals etc, you have to look at how others games will benefit from him, Sigurdsson, Rooney, Klassen, Lookman, DCL, will all benefit massively from the space he creates