Arsenal: Jamie Vardy Snub Being Completely Overblown

Arsenal are facing the end of times with Jamie Vardy’s snub. There is no hope for the future and the team might as well pack it up. Oh wait, nevermind.

Mesut Ozil has left for Bayern Munich. Alexis Sanchez has accepted the offer from Juventus. They have been replaced by Moussa Sissoko and Gervinho. Arsene Wenger sold Koscielny to RC Strasbourg Alsace and subsequently gone home to coach there. Brendan Rodgers has come on in his stead. Petr Cech has gone back to Chelsea. It is the Arsenal-geddon.

Oh… wait. Nevermind. It was just a snub from Jamie Vardy. Who cares?!

Seriously, I don’t understand this. There are two angles people are taking and both make me incensed. The first is that ‘Not even Jamie Vardy wants to play at Arsenal.’ What? That’s not true. If he didn’t want to play at Arsenal he wouldn’t have waited this long to decide. Jamie Vardy just isn’t the prototypical mercenary type that the Mancunian clubs load up on that have no loyalties to anyone but their next Ferrari.

He chose loyalty. He chose to remain at a small club where the is lauded as a hero. That’s not a slight on Arsenal by any means. Not one single solitary bit. And anyone who says it is just has a personal vendetta against Arsenal, probably because their own club isn’t even in Champions League (that’s right, Embolo and Hummels snubbed you, United. Better luck next year.).

The other angle people are taking that drives me batty is that Wenger has lost his edge. He used to be able to sign Henry and Vieira, now he can’t get Vardy. Again, what? Not every player is motivated by the same things. Troy Deeney looks ready to turn down Leicester, is that some great snub on the Foxes? No. He just has loyalty and loves his club.

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There is no great insult here. There is no underlying message. It’s Jamie *bleeping* Vardy. Arsene Wenger hasn’t lost his edge, he tried to make a shrewd signing and it didn’t work. Do we think that Barcelona is insulted that Hector Bellerin ‘snubbed’ them? Because I don’t. It’s part of football. Not everyone is the same. This isn’t FIFA where everyone can be nabbed with the right amount of money. There are other motivations in life.

There is nothing else to talk about with Vardy. All these ignoramuses that are saying Vardy is too good for Arsenal are fooling themselves (seriously, most are United fans). Everyone saying Wenger has lost his touch are just trying to push their own ‘Wenger Out’ agenda. They carefully ignore that in the past four summers, Wenger has signed Alexis, Ozil, Cech and Xhaka and has managed to hang onto guys likes Bellerin who are forming the basis of the club of the future.

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Keep calm, take a deep breath and move on. There is nothing else to see here. Good luck to Vardy, I admire his loyalty. Good luck to Arsenal, I’m sure we will be fine without him.

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