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Jamie Vardy’s Leicester City career could be coming to a halt at the end of the season.

Jamie Vardy’s contract at Leicester City is coming to an end, and the club legend will be trying to lead the club back to the Premier League for the first time in a grand finale, but his replacement is already out there and waiting.

Vardy joined Leicester from Fleetwood Town in the summer of 2012, becoming the first million-pound non-league footballer in English history.

Despite a slow start in the Midlands, his goals propelled Leicester to victory in 2013/14, and he achieved biblical stardom at the King Power Stadium by winning the Premier League in 2015/16.

He’s still scoring goals in the Championship and has guided Leicester to the league’s top spot by already reaching double figures. However, with the future to consider, there may be a ready-made alternative for Vardy in Kasper Dolberg.

Why Kasper Dolberg is the best Jamie Vardy replacement.

Despite the fact that Kelechi Iheanacho, Patson Daka, and Tom Cannon are now competing with Vardy at Leicester, the Foxes will most certainly require four strikers at the King Power Stadium next season if they are promoted to the top flight.

Vardy’s age and relative club wage, having become a high-earner in the east Midlands during his successful period with the Foxes, suggest that he could move in the summer, with Dolberg tipped as his ideal replacement.

Vardy scores in the top 95th percentile of attackers for non-penalty goals (0.60), the top 97th percentile for pass completion rate in his position (79.1 percent), and the 77th percentile for clearances, yet he falls short in aerial duels won and blocks.

Dolberg is all but identical. Ranking in the top 84th percentile for non-penalty goals in the Belgian Pro League with a 0.50, the top 83rd percentile of pass completion rates with 74.5 percent, and also displaying much more proficiency in terms of clearances than other metrics when defending from the front, he’s all but a like-for-like swap for Vardy.

It is also necessary to compare the various levels of competitiveness, and thereforeDolberg would likely rank higher in a league without Igor Thiago, who is poised to join Brentford for a club record amount in the summer.

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Vardy will undoubtedly be a Leicester icon forever, no matter where he ends up. That could be this summer, when he leaves the King Power Stadium as Leicester’s greatest ever player, having scored nearly 200 goals for the club, 136 of which came in the Premier League, four in Europe, and, of course, that magical first top-flight trophy that the club had craved for so long.