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Imagine, for a moment, that Thierry Henry had not been rescued by Arsenal in the summer of 1999.
JUMPING FOR JOY: Macaulay Langstaff celebrates his winner at Norwich last week PICTURE: Alamy

Chris Dunlavy - A fresh take on football

Imagine, for a moment, that Thierry Henry had not been rescued by Arsenal in the summer of 1999.
That he’d remained at Juventus, toiled on the left wing, and forever become pigeonholed as an extravagantly gifted but maddeningly inconsistent wideman.
He’d still have been good - he was Thierry Henry. But one of the all-time greats? Almost certainly not.
Conversely, what if Jamie Vardy had succumbed to Arsene Wenger’s charms in the aftermath of Leicester’s historic title win a decade ago?
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Arsenal did meet the £25m release clause in Vardy’s cont...

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