'Immaculate' Jamie Vardy ready to play beyond current Leicester City contract

Jamie Vardy’s “immaculate” care for his body combined with the quality he is showing on the pitch has Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers confident the striker will still be playing beyond the end of his current contract.

Vardy, 35, showed City exactly what they had been missing on Tuesday, when he returned from the longest lay-off of his career at the club to set up one goal and score another, earning victory over Burnley.

He is now set to make his first start of the calendar year against Leeds on Saturday, but the fans at the King Power Stadium are not witnessing the final leg of his time at the club, with Rodgers backing him to keep playing.

His contract runs out next summer, when he will be 36, but everything is geared up for him to go on longer, from the cryotherapy chamber fitted at his home, his international retirement, and his record-breaking on the pitch. His goal at Burnley means he is now the Premier League’s all-time top marksman for goals scored aged 30 or older.

Rodgers said: “If you look at him now, at 35, and he’s got another year after this, he looks fresh.

“It’s clearly always going to be a management exercise with Jamie. But you look at him now and you see he still has the pace, and the ability to score goals. But not only that, it’s the devilment he brings to the game. He’s cute, and he’s a great role model for our strikers and some of our younger players, how he is in the game in order to win.

“Hopefully he can still be going strong. At the minute he’s looking brilliant.

“He can play three games a week but maybe not to the intensity that the team needs. But there’s no doubt he’s a player who can have an impact.

“He looks after his body, he’s such a top professional. The machinery that he has at