The Blues, Birmingham and West Ham are reported to be amongst the leading contenders to sign Fleetwood Town striker Jamie Vardy. The Cod Army are claimed to have turned down a £1 million offer for the 24-year-old, who has previously been mentioned in connection with Celtic and Huddersfield.

Sheffield-born Vardy, who has scored 15 goals in the Blue Square Bet Premier this season, first made an impression with local Evo-Stik League Premier Division side Stocksbridge Park Steels having been released by Sheffield Wednesday as a teenager. He won a trial with Crewe and other Football League clubs before turning down a short-term deal with Rotherham.

The 5ft 10in tall frontman or winger joined FC Halifax Town in June 2010, scoring 24 league goals and winning the club’s Players’ Player of the Year as the Shaymen carried off the Evo-Stik League Premier Division title last season.

Vardy moved on to Fleetwood for an undisclosed fee believed to be £175,000 in August and has continued to score goals at a similar rate, winning the Blue Square Bet Premier Player of the Month for November and netting twice in today’s 6-0 victory at Southport.

Elsewhere, former Blues loanee Andros Townsend has joined Leeds on a similar basis from Tottenham for the rest of the season.

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jas0999 added 09:28 - Jan 2 Let's hope it's not PJ/Clegg offering £1M for a conference player. I knew PJ was bad but .... Why are there no new players at the club - several championship clubs - albeit with decent managers - have already made signings ... PJ should have been on top of the CB situation - particularly as Sonko is banned.
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s6blue added 09:31 - Jan 2 got to be a wind up surely?!?!?!
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Wickets added 10:17 - Jan 2 Someone say it HOW MUCH DID WE SELL RHODES 4
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PauloJulio added 10:44 - Jan 2 £1 mill...sounds a bit fishy to me!!
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MattinLondon added 11:46 - Jan 2 £1,000,000 for a Blue Square Bet Premier? So a reliable striker playing Sunday Morning League must be work 100,000? If this is true then football will implode very very shortly and we will all become Rugby fans....and that is a totally unacceptable thing to become
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TimmyH added 11:51 - Jan 2 looking for the wrong player in the wrong position - should be looking at a RB and CB first of all!!
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yorksblue added 10:06 - Jan 3 On current form, Fleetwood would turn us over easily.
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RoyKeanesDog added 23:15 - Nov 8 Hope we sign him. I can see him becoming top goal scorer in the prem and playing for England by the time my internet connection finally posts this message.
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jayitfc_ added 23:02 - Jan 1 Wow, would have been unreal if he'd signed
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BLUEBEAT added 23:39 - Jan 1 do a toilet
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kozmik added 18:53 - May 23 sigh
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multiplescoregasms added 17:10 - Apr 9 This bloke will never make it in football. Will never play in the Premier League, score in 11 consecutive matches in a Premier League Winning season, play for England, or have a goal ratio of nearly 1 goal per 2 games. Trust me, I know these things :-)
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Skip73 added 19:16 - Apr 9 Alot of 'experts' on here saying how crap he would've have been. Laughable really.
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SpiritOfJohn added 19:02 - Apr 10 Clickbait has made me smile by throwing up this old link, following another bore draw for Town :) How much did we pay for Kayden Jackson?
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Esseeja added 00:21 - Apr 12 Now I understand why the £1M was rejected.... that deal now feels disrespectful in hindsight.
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IpswichToon added 11:38 - Apr 14 So many comments here aged like milk!
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Rjackson65324 added 21:25 - Apr 17 😂 well this thread aged well didn't it
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superblues9 added 12:51 - Jan 1 If only we knew what we knew now lot of people here would have been eating their words !!
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