Leicester City Football Club currently does not own a single senior striker. If you can actually believe yours truly. It is undoubtedly the first time that a situation as peculiar and damning as this has emerged in this journalist's 30-plus-year association with the Foxes.
This state of affairs represents a clear and present danger to any hope of revitalisation for the club. It serves as a stinging indictment of The King Power International Group's ownership of Leicester City, not to mention the failings of the board and, specifically, the former director of football and current chief football officer, Jon Rudkin.
It takes nothing more than reflection upon the illustrious lineage of centre forwards the East Midlanders have possessed throughout their history to understand the gravity of the current vacuum. Even in recent times, when Top's (chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha) father, Khun Vichai, was at the helm, the club's firepower remained exceptional.
Now, Leicester have parted ways with Jordan Ayew and Patson Daka, yet even that ridiculously poor duo would surely represent a more viable option than having nothing at all. Two brilliant forwards who played together at King Power Stadium for a series of fruitful years were David Nugent and Jamie Vardy.
​Both fan favourites were renowned as comedic figures, and they now collaborate as a duo on the podcast, 'Jamie Vardy’s Having a Party' with broadcaster and lifelong Leicester supporter Manish Bhasin on hosting duties. The show is as informative as it is side-splittingly funny.
Harry Kane at Leicester City featuring Jamie Vardy
For example, few football fans remain aware that Harry Kane once plied his trade at Filbert Way. The former Tottenham Hotspur hero was indeed an LCFC loanee once upon a time, and a famous photograph exists of him and Vardy sitting on the substitute bench behind manager Nigel Pearson.
Vardy provided a humorous commentary regarding the snapshot, quipping: 'any chance of a game, gaffer?!' Nugent recalled that Kane was exceptionally quiet, offering little more than a simple greeting and a daily farewell for his first month at the LE2 club.
#England's greatest striker once played for @LCFC, and so did @HKane! pic.twitter.com/hQ7gD6ZUH8
— The Vardy Party (@VardyPartyPod) June 23, 2026
However, following a defeat to Derby County, the future England captain delivered an impassioned speech to rally his teammates. Nugent admitted he was not initially impressed, thinking to himself: 'who is this 19-year-old kid?!'
Meanwhile Vardy confessed that they failed to recognise Kane's eventual legendary pedigree at the time. Nevertheless, both men divulged that their teammate's technique was undeniably superb.
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