Very good, not very tall, but well schooled in defensive duties. I wouldn't sell for less than £5m, for £5m you'd get yourself a future international and most definitely a Premier League player. He's too good for the Championship next season.
Everton supposedly had interest last season, and Leicester reportedly had a bid rejected by the Allams when Barmby got suspended, but I've never heard of anything about Swansea.
Some would also argue he is only good enough to be a premiership benchwarmer at the moment. He needs another season in the Championship.
I'd definitely agree with you. He may be good but not that good yet. Doubt we would get 5 million though. I think 3 would be accepted if it came in, allams are business people so will look at the profit margins.
Unless Chester is really chasing the pennies so early in what could be a potential International career with plenty more pennies at stake, he d be a fool to go to the Premiership this early.
He'd be mustard in the PL! And especially for a passing team like Swansea. I still don't want him to go like.
He'd easily be good enough for lower Premier clubs, he'd fit in with the Swansea way, whether hed'd want to move is another matter. Be interesting to see if Swansea suffer second season syndrome, particularly if they lose a couple of star larkers like the keeper Vorm.
I would say he's good enough now, and the reason I put £5m on his head, if that's the albeit inflated value of a very mediocre Matt Mills, then Chester is comfortably worth £5m. That is the going rate for a decent Championship player. He for my money is one of the best centre halves I've seen last season, in fact I wouldn't have swapped him for any other Championship centre half.
I'd agree...he's quicker than any other centre half in the Championship, so he can keep up with speedy strikers no problem. Plus he reads the game really well...he started and finished his goal at cardiff!
If he were three inches taller the big clubs would be banging the door down to sign him. As it is, I think he still has a Premier career ahead of him, starting either this August or next. Not sure whether Everton would be the best move for him right now, as it would be tricky to force his way into the starting XI straight away.
I dont fully agree about all that "if chester was a few inches taller" crap. there's loads of CB's all over the world that are under 6ft. John Heitinga at everton for example, 1 inch taller than chester... cant remember any commentator even mentioning that he's small. he does the job just as well as someone who is 6ft+ Chester will do well in the prem at some stage in his career, would like to see him stay with us for at least 1 more season though.
