Should Jamie Vardy leave Leicester? Sunday Supplement panel debate

Jamie Vardy may be better off staying at Leicester despite speculation linking him to other top teams, according to the Sunday People's Steve Bates.

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The forward scored for the 10th consecutive Premier League game against Newcastle on Saturday, matching Ruud van Nistelrooy's record.

And speaking on Sunday Supplement, Bates said he believes Foxes manager Claudio Ranieri must do all he can to keep Vardy at the club.

"They have to make sure they keep Vardy," said Bates. "When a player comes from nowhere like Vardy has done, scoring and making defenders look ridiculous, inevitably the top teams will look at him.

"Vardy is already being linked with the top clubs. Would he be earning much more than £15,000 or £20,000 per week? I'm not sure he would be, maybe he would, I don't think how Leicester structure things.

"But he'd easily double, triple, quadruple his wages at Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, Arsenal or Liverpool, certainly. Whoever is advising him will be key to whether he stays or goes.

"Because if untold riches are being shoved in his path, he may decide to go. But that may not be the best thing for him long-term."

Vardy made his England debut in June, just three years after playing non-league football with Fleetwood Town. Paul Hayward of the Daily Telegraph believes it is a measure of the player's ambition that he backed himself to make the transition when Leicester came knocking.

"He's certainly an ambitious player," said Hayward. "When he signed for Leicester, he insisted on having an England clause in his contract, whereby he'd get more money if he ever played for England.

"Leicester said to him, 'you don't need to worry about that'. But Vardy, rather than his agent, insisted on having this clause because he believed he would start for England."