Leicester City offer new contract to Chelsea target Jamie Vardy

Leicester City will offer a new “double your money” contract to keep Jamie Vardy at the club, according to The Mirror.

And to help with this, Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich has given Hiddink the green light to spend in the January market.

Sunday January 3 rounds out the busy festive season and sees London sides Chelsea and Tottenham away at Crystal Palace and Everton respectively.

Hiddink said: “Let’s go into the next few games and then we’ll see”. It depends on the results.

Despite him being in great form this season, critics have wondered whether Vardy is really worth his £30m valuation. Chelsea boss Hiddink’s No. 1 priority is likely to be Leicester’s in-form England striker Jamie Vardy as they desperately try to climb up the English Premier League. The Belgium global has scored in each of his last seven league games and needs to net in his next four to equal Vardy’s feat of registering in 11 straight Premier League matches.

Vardy signed a new £40,000-a-week deal in 2014 and still has two and a half years left so Leicester have not been in a rush to renegotiate.

In spite of his incredible run, he’s not the marquee forward many Blues fans will be hoping for, and as he turns 29 in January he’s not a long-term solution either.

With 17 games played already, the EPL log looks different from the expectations of many predictors who would have imagined one of Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, Arsenal or Liverpool to sit atop. Leicester had the pressure last season in this period, bad stress.

Further, there’s little reason to want to leave high-flying Leicester at the moment-especially for a club struggling in the manner Chelsea have been and the atmosphere of negativity surrounding Jose Mourinho’s sacking.