Jamie Vardy - BBC Sport - Vardy set to reject Arsenal

[Özim]

Welbeck never scored that many in a season and let's face it, even if given that sort of run, would never get figures that high. There have been one season wonders before but I can't remember one pretty much being the top scorer in the league and then tailing off into nothing. The only one I can think of is Kevin Phillips and in the two seasons where Sunderland massively overachieved with two 7th place finishes, he got a very healthy 48 in 80 games.

I'm not sure the Eduardo comparison holds up too well. He'd at least had a few seasons scoring goals and playing in Europe and I tend to think we look back a bit favouarbly him at Arsenal in terms of what he achieved pre-injury, probably due to what happened to him. His stats were pretty middle of the road before the injury I think.

If we are looking at buying a player that can potentially be an improvement on Giroud straight away, then buying the leagues second highest scorer is a safer bet. Every transfer is a risk to a certain degree and the gamble we would have to take on Janssen immediately being better than Giroud is higher I think. Price doesn't really matter and shouldn't be a concern to us either. Otherwise you end up sounding like Wenger. And you don't want that surely Zim?

No he didn't but there was nothing exciting about the signing, there's plenty of players who have scored goals in one season and never really reproduced any near as many, Adebayor, David White, Phillips (as you mentioned), Ramsey, Michu, Andy Johnson, Roque Santa Cruz, Vardy is only 2nd scorer in the league as he played for the team that won the title which makes a difference.

I think Eduardo's finishing was very good for us before his injury (felt we should have signed Huntelaar personally at the time, another error there, but that's Wenger for you).

Vardy isn't a safe bet at all due to his record, a safer bet than Janssen.....who knows Janssen could turn out to be like RVN at least he has potential, to have scored that many at 21 bodes well, both a gamble but one is younger and can improve, the other won't and is prime candidate to be a one season hit.

I just don't trust this signing, plus Pochettino has a decent record of discovering players and he's trying to sign Janssen which bodes well.