Tuesday 7 June 2016 12:02, UK
Wales midfielder Andy King says the strong team bond at Leicester will not be damaged if Jamie Vardy decides to join Arsenal.
England striker Vardy left for Euro 2016 on Monday with his club future still uncertain amidst interest from Arsenal.
The Football Writers' Player of the Year is considering a £20m move to Arsene Wenger's side after they met his release clause.
Premier League champions Leicester are reportedly set to make Vardy a new contract offer in an effort to keep him at the King Power Stadium.
Vardy scored 24 league goals last season as 5,000-1 outsiders Leicester won the title and his departure would be a huge blow ahead of the club's Champions League debut.
King, currently with Wales at their Brittany base, said: "I wasn't surprised when I heard about Vards because all of our players have had brilliant seasons and are going to be linked with big clubs.
"For Leicester, it is going to be a summer of speculation of incomings and out-goings. Nothing has happened yet and it will probably be a long transfer window but I don't think it will affect the squad.
"It is 25 players in a squad and, if one or two decide they want to go and play their football elsewhere, we wish them all the best. We want to keep our best players and hopefully add to that."
King said the entire Leicester squad wanted Vardy to stay following their historic campaign which saw them win the first title of their history.
Should he leave, though, it might increase speculation that other Leicester players, among them Riyad Mahrez and N'Golo Kante, could see their own futures elsewhere.
"We want all our best players to stay and try and build from there," King added." But what he (Vardy) decides to do is up to him. We have a tournament and I am really focused on Wales now.
"I will deal with Leicester when I get back, but for the next five or six weeks it is about Wales and what we can hopefully do in the tournament."
Wales suffered a pre-Euro 2016 blow on Sunday when they lost 3-0 to Sweden in Stockholm, albeit without a number of key players.
Injured trio Joe Allen, Joe Ledley and Hal Robson-Kanu all missed the game while Gareth Bale was given only the final 26 minutes as a substitute.
King said: "It wasn't the result we wanted at all going into the tournament, but we got 90 minutes into our legs and we will learn from that.
"If you go and win the game 2-0, everyone says 'Oh, you are going to win the tournament' so to lose we can really sit down and use the match fitness and go from there.
"Without doing any disrespect to the friendlies, we won the games when it mattered, and hopefully that will be the case at the end of the tournament.
"There is no denying we are a much better team when Baley plays, so it means we can go into the tournament full strength and we are raring to go."
