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Jamie Vardy: 'Leicester City over Riyad Mahrez saga'

Vardy: 'Leicester over Mahrez saga'
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Leicester City forward Jamie Vardy insists that the Foxes have "moved on" from the Riyad Mahrez saga.

Leicester City forward Jamie Vardy has insisted that the Foxes have "moved on" from the Riyad Mahrez saga.

Mahrez went AWOL from training and indeed matches in the early stages of February after Leicester refused to sell the Algerian international to Manchester City in the latter stages of the transfer window.

The attacker was reportedly left "very depressed" by his failure to secure a move to City on transfer deadline day, and it has since been claimed that the Citizens will not return with an offer at the end of the season.

Vardy has said that the Leicester squad 'could understand Mahrez's disappointment' at the failed move, and the England forward has insisted that the matter has now been firmly put to bed.

"It is what it is. The bid came in, it was turned down, and you can understand his disappointment. But while he wasn't here we were having to get on with it," Vardy told Sky Sports News.

"We are all professionals and had to play without him. It happens if he is injured or on the bench, so we just focused on the games. He came back, got us in the dressing room, explained the situation, and you move on.

"Everyone is exactly the same, they know what they have to do and their jobs. It was Riyad who wanted the meeting and got everyone in the dressing room and explained the situation, which is kept behind closed doors between us, and as far as everyone else is concerned that's that.

"You have to make sure it's like that, with the dressing room we have got everyone is a close-knit group so for him personally to want to do that shows what he is about."

Leicester will return to Premier League action with a home game against Stoke City on Saturday afternoon.

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