New Jamie Vardy update will concern Wrexham AFC and Sheffield Wednesday | OneFootball

Jamie Vardy has announced he will be leaving Leicester City at the end of this season and reports suggest he wants to stay in the Premier League.

Jamie Vardy has announced that he will be leaving Leicester City at the end of this season and there were immediate links to several Championship clubs, but that now does not look likely.

Vardy, who has been at Leicester since the summer of 2012, will be leaving the Foxes this summer after their relegation from the Premier League was confirmed with a recent 1-0 defeat to Liverpool at the King Power Stadium.

He had initially been heavily linked with a move to Wrexham, who had their automatic promotion from League One confirmed at the weekend, as well as his boyhood club Sheffield Wednesday but, according to Sky Sports, the former England international does not want to play for a Championship club.

It has been reported that Vardy believes he can still contribute for a Premier League team and he has been linked with a move to Leicester’s midlands rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Wrexham will be looking to invest into their squad once again under the ownership of Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds, whilst Wednesday have been dealing with off-field issues once again, such as the delayed payment of players and staff for March and are also still concerned about the possible departure of manager Danny Rohl with the German linked with a move to Southampton.

Leicester City's Jamie Vardy still wants Premier League football

38-year-old Vardy, who has won both the Premier League and the FA Cup with Leicester, has been the club captain since the departure of Kasper Schmeichel in the summer of 2023.

Even during a poor season for the Foxes under the management of Steve Cooper and then Ruud van Nistelrooy, he has still notched a respectable seven goals in the top-flight this season, albeit missing a penalty against the team who he is now linked with, Wolves, on the weekend.

Vardy stuck with Leicester following their relegation in the 2022/23 season and was their top scorer under Enzo Maresca as they won the Championship title last season, scoring 18 goals in 35 appearances.

However, with his career even closer to coming to an end, the player once famously released by Sheffield Wednesday’s academy at the age of 16 before his move to Stocksbridge Park Steels, wants to test himself again at the highest level.

Despite the news, both Wrexham and Wednesday remain high in the odds among most bookmakers, whilst Leeds also feature in that list following their automatic promotion to the Premier League on Easter Monday.

Wrexham’s ambition & Sheffield Wednesday’s issues amid Jamie Vardy links

Wrexham, with Phil Parkinson at the helm, have achieved a third successive automatic promotion to leap from the National League all the way to the second-tier, going past Welsh compatriots Cardiff City, who were relegated to League One on the weekend.

The Red Dragons may well find that the ability to once again challenge for promotion from the Championship is a lot tougher than what they have found in the EFL thus far but that is unlikely to prevent them from once again investing into the squad.

Their current striking options include the likes of former Sunderland and Wolves striker Steven Fletcher as well as former Burnley man Jay Rodriguez. Jack Marriott is also at the Racecourse alongside Wrexham’s cult heroes Paul Mullin and Ollie Palmer.

Sheffield Wednesday sit firmly in the middle-of-the-table in the second-tier following their 1-1 draw with Portsmouth at Hillsborough at the weekend but they have slowly slid away from the top six and the play-off places in recent weeks.

That draw with Pompey, who won League One last season, means they have managed just one win in their last eight matches in the Championship with that poor run of form beginning with a 1-0 defeat at home to arch-rivals Sheffield United in the Steel City Derby before the March international break.

There is far more uncertainty with Wednesday than there is at Wrexham at the moment but neither side appear currently in the race for Vardy, who apparently doesn’t want to spend another season in the second division of English football.