Jamie Vardy told to snub Arsenal move by Leicester team-mates Kasper Schmeichel, Wes Morgan and Robert Huth
JAMIE VARDY was begged by Leicester team-mates Wes Morgan, Kasper Schmeichel and Robert Huth to snub a move to Arsenal.
The England striker who bagged the Premier League title with the Foxes could move to North London after Arsene Wenger activated his £20million release clause.
But the Leciester heavyweights have all personally contacted Vardy and told him to lead the line in their first assault on the Champions League next season.
Vardy will wait until after the Euros to decide his future, telling Three Lions boss Roy Hodgson that he is focused only on the England campaign.
Arsenal offered the 29-year-old a contract worth more than £100,000-a-week, but Leicester have made a new bid of their own and have pleaded with Vardy to stay with Claudio Ranieri at the King Power.
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Emirates defender Laurent Koscielny has said he wants the former non-league hitman to challenge Olivier Giroud for a starting spot.
And Gunners boss Wenger had been hoping for a definitive answer before the European Championship begins in France on Friday.
But Vardy is committed to putting all his energy into England's cause as they look to escape from a tricky Group B that also includes Wales and Russia.
Hodgson warned the striker that he would expect as much last week, saying: "The one thing this group of players know and have accepted is that when you are on England duty, you are on England duty.
"It is not a question of you sorting out your future, or diving off for medicals.
"We are not trying to block players' futures or transfers, but as far as we are concerned, our ongoing theme is that England is England, your club is your club.
"While you are with England we want you to stay focused on us."
England begin their campaign against Russia in Marseilles on Saturday night.