Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread

[rob_bridge]

Chester has been our best signing (other than Benteke) in this woeful decade. A fine player and good influence who had to play through injury due to bellend Bruce.

Honestly I would give him the choice assuming the bid is 10m+ and be honest with him to say you are 3rd choice / 4th choice.

I'd like to see him stay but business is business.

[jwarry]

Chester has been our best signing (other than Benteke) in this woeful decade. A fine player and good influence who had to play through injury due to bellend Bruce.

Honestly I would give him the choice assuming the bid is 10m+ and be honest with him to say you are 3rd choice / 4th choice.

I'd like to see him stay but business is business.

Yes business is business but to be honest I don’t think he can play the way Dean wants to play, he’s simply not good enough on the ball

[Steve67]

Chester has been great for us in the Championship but I'm afraid it's time to get ruthless.  A bid of anywhere near to what has been clickbaited and I'd sell him.  He needs the games and won't be happy making up the numbers to be fair. 

[Drummond]

I'd rather he got the chance to play for us in the Premier League. Or maybe him and £10-15m for Phillips..

[OCD]

If another club was sniffing around a player you didn't want to sell, would you really want to be after a player from that club? A cash + player deal would inevitably be discussed. Probably nothing in it but if there is it may mean that their contract negotiations with Phillips aren't going well.

[KRS]

Apparently Marvelous has been in Birmingham this week for his medical:

https://allafrica.com/stories/201907170652.html

[cdbearsfan]

Pre-work permit?

[Steve67]

A couple of things wrong with that report.  Surely all our medical staff are in the USA with the squad, and not in Brum?  We wouldn't trust anyone else to do the medical on the clubs behalf?  Secondly, he's flying out to the USA as the squad are surely flying home today?  I'm not convinced this is being done, no real credible evidence?

[andyh]

A couple of things wrong with that report.  Surely all our medical staff are in the USA with the squad, and not in Brum?  We wouldn't trust anyone else to do the medical on the clubs behalf?  Secondly, he's flying out to the USA as the squad are surely flying home today?  I'm not convinced this is being done, no real credible evidence?

I thought the same about him flying out to the US, when our lot are coming back.

[b23]

Whatever happened to the links to Baptiste Santamaria ?

[Steve67]

His stats are really good, Santamaria that is.

[sid1964]

If Leeds have offered £7.5 million for Chester then we would be mad to turn it down.

[mattjpa]

If Leeds have offered £7.5 million for Chester then we would be mad to turn it down.

Mings does not have a stellar injury record, nor does Hause. Konsa is a young lad who has no experience at this level and Engels is new to the country and could quite conceivably be 6months off hitting good form. I don't think we should be selling, even at that price. I think people are making too much of this permanent damage thing, if anything I imagine he will simply need a specialised training programme (as a lot of post 30 players do) and maybe need a game or two off a season if he is first choice. Our two finest CB's of the modern era, McGrath and Laursen both had this issue and hit their peak in their early 30's. I also think that some peoples judgement is being clouded regarding his ability on the ball. He lost form towards the end when playing through injury but I don't remember any mistakes prior to that period. Absolute, definite keep. See how things are in January.

[Mister E]

If Leeds have offered £7.5 million for Chester then we would be mad to turn it down.

Mings does not have a stellar injury record, nor does Hause. Konsa is a young lad who has no experience at this level and Engels is new to the country and could quite conceivably be 6months off hitting good form. I don't think we should be selling, even at that price. I think people are making too much of this permanent damage thing, if anything I imagine he will simply need a specialised training programme (as a lot of post 30 players do) and maybe need a game or two off a season if he is first choice. Our two finest CB's of the modern era, McGrath and Laursen both had this issue and hit their peak in their early 30's. I also think that some peoples judgement is being clouded regarding his ability on the ball. He lost form towards the end when playing through injury but I don't remember any mistakes prior to that period. Absolute, definite keep. See how things are in January.

Matt, I agree with a lot of what you say, but Chester did drop several absolute clangers in his last few games; admittedly, because he was our only proper CB and the pressure on his shoulders was immense.

[Villafirst]

Chester was injured for his last few games - he didn't look right at all. Judge him now he's fit. We don't need to sell him and £7.5M these days is peanuts.