{"id":542390,"date":"2020-01-31T09:54:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T14:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=542390"},"modified":"2020-01-31T09:54:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T14:54:57","slug":"stoke-city-sign-defender-james-chester-on-loan-from-aston-villa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/01\/31\/stoke-city-sign-defender-james-chester-on-loan-from-aston-villa\/","title":{"rendered":"Stoke City Sign Defender James Chester On Loan From Aston Villa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/category\/league-football\/championship\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoke City<\/a> have signed defender James Chester. The defender arrives on loan from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/aston-villa-club-news-analysis-fixtures\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aston Villa<\/a> for the remainder of the season. He arrives as Stoke\u2019s second January signing.<\/p>\n<h2>Stoke Sign James Chester<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">James Chester is a Potter ?<\/p>\n<p>The Wales international joins the Club on loan until the end of the season.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SCFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SCFC<\/a> ?\u26aa<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stoke City FC (@stokecity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stokecity\/status\/1223252142879801351?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 31, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>The Deal<\/h3>\n<p>Stoke announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stokecityfc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via their website<\/a> they had signed the defender. Chester arrives on loan from Aston Villa for the remainder of the season. The Villa captain arrives seeking game time ahead of the Euros in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Chester has been at Villa since 2016 and has played an integral part in the club\u2019s rise back to the Premier League. However, since the arrival of Dean Smith in October 2018, injuries have blighted his time meaning he has fallen down the pecking order.<\/p>\n<p>He has been a terrific servant for Aston Villa and certainly, eyebrows are being raised as to why Villa are letting him leave. He has made over 100 appearances for Villa and took the captaincy in 2018 after John Terry left the club.<\/p>\n<p>Dean Smith holds the defender in high regard but due to Villa\u2019s change of system, Chester has dropped to fourth choice. He wants game time ahead of the Euros with Wales in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>He will drop back to the Championship looking to ensure Stoke continue to pull clear of the relegation zone. Michael O\u2019Neill has got Stoke motoring, but he still wants experienced campaigners to ensure Stoke avoid the drop.<\/p>\n<p>Chester follows Jordan Thompson in joining Stoke and Michael O\u2019Neill wants to add a couple more players to continue Stoke\u2019s improving run of performances and results.<\/p>\n<p>The defender is unlikely to be involved against Derby County this evening. His debut could be in their game against Charlton Athletic on the 8<sup>th<\/sup> of February.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"qddFjBzsSFd4vEZE2SiwYg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1194578152\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'qddFjBzsSFd4vEZE2SiwYg',sig:'QdigL_A5RNMiywXcn-dNTooHCJSuenueVcjWHPQaBQE=',w:'594px',h:'413px',items:'1194578152',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stoke City have signed defender James Chester. The defender arrives on loan from Aston Villa for the remainder of the season. He arrives as Stoke\u2019s second January signing. Stoke Sign James Chester &nbsp; James Chester is a Potter ? The Wales international joins the Club on loan until the end of the season.#SCFC ?\u26aa \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3241,"featured_media":542425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3838,33,32,30,3,28],"tags":[177,197,4811,40,356,136],"class_list":["post-542390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stoke","category-aston-villa","category-championship","category-league-football","category-news","category-premier-league","category-transfers","tag-aston-villa","tag-championship","tag-james-chester","tag-premier-league","tag-stoke-city","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}