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Jamie Vardy targeting Champions League qualification with Leicester

Jamie Vardy celebrates the opening goal against Chelsea
Image: Jamie Vardy has played a pivotal role in Leicester's surge up the Premier League table

Jamie Vardy says he is solely focused on maintaining Leicester’s push for a top four finish.

Vardy, who is currently recovering from minor groin surgery, has enjoyed a sensational season and is currently the Premier League's joint top scorer with 15 goals.  

Sky sources understand Chelsea, Manchester City and Manchester United are monitoring any developments regarding the future of the 28-year-old, who has two-and-a-half years left to run on his current deal at the King Power Stadium. 

However, Vardy insists Leicester remains his priority and the England international is convinced the club is heading in the right direction. 

"You have seen what is going on at this club, it is building in a way they want to be challenging at the top all the time," he told the Leicester Mercury

Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri congratulates Jamie Vardy during the game at Newcastle
Image: Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri previously said Vardy has indicated no desire to leave the club

"We will keep doing what we are doing all the time on the training field and see where it takes us.

"We have reached 40 points. That is what the boss wanted us to achieve first and we have done that now and will see what his next objective is.

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"We just want to keep doing as well as we have been doing and take each game as it comes.

"Who knows, if we have another second half of the season like the first we will be there or thereabouts.

"That is how this league has been up to now so we will take each game as it comes.

"It would be brilliant [to finish in the top four] but we will just be doing exactly what we have been doing, which is looking to the next game. 

Jamie Vardy (3rd L) celebrates his seventh league goal of the season after putting Leicester 1-0 up from the penalty spot
Image: Vardy is confident Leicester can maintain their challenge for the top four during the second half of the season

"We will look to try and pick the points up and then look to the next one."

Leicester currently sit in second place in the Premier League table, just two points off leaders Arsenal, but are without a win in their last three matches. 

Claudio Ranieri's side followed up the 1-0 Boxing Day defeat to Liverpool with consecutive goalless draws against Manchester City and Bournemouth, but Vardy has rejected suggestions the club's challenge for a top four finish will fall away in the second half of the season. 

He said: "At the end of the day, there is going to be speculation and people talking. We just have to let it go in one ear and out of the other and concentrate on ourselves."

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