Jamie Vardy has extended his contract with Leicester City through 2024, securing his future with the team.
His contract at the King Power Stadium was set to expire next summer, and he had been linked with a move to Manchester United.
The 35-year-old, who joined Leicester in 2012 from Fleetwood Town, then in the non-league, has chosen to stay at the team he helped win the Premier League by surprise in 2016 and will have been there for 12 years by the time his new contract expires.
“I’m obviously over the moon. Once I heard it was something the Club was looking at, there was only one thing that was going to happen, and I was going to sign it. The decision was easy,” Vardy said of his decision to stay.
“I’ve been here long enough now that I feel like part of the furniture. I think you can see with the way we’re trying to play, the way the Club’s wanting to go, that it’s going to be onwards and upwards.
“To carry on being involved with that, I was over the moon. Now it’s all about this season and finishing as high as we can. My legs are still feeling great so I’ll carry that on helping the Club as much as I can, whether that’s scoring or assisting, that’s what I’m here to do.”
Vardy is third on the club’s all-time list of leading goal scorers with 164 goals after 387 games played for Leicester across all competitions.
