QPR boss Neil Warnock has confirmed that his club were the non-Premier League side which made a bid for Jon Walters at the end of last week. Meanwhile, the new Chester FC, which was formed from the ashes of Chester City after they were wound up in March, are not entitled to any sell-on from the player’s sale to Stoke, according to sources in Cheshire.

Warnock says that having missed out on Walters, he’ll now have to start the hunt for two replacements: “The thing is, Jonathan could have played up front or on the right and now I’ve got to look for two different players for the same role.”

In July it was reported that QPR had had an initial offer of £2.5 million rebuffed by the Blues. Last week’s bid was likely to have been at the £2.75 million rising to £3.25 million level subsequently matched by Stoke.

Meanwhile, it’s understood the new Chester FC club, formed after the collapse of Walters’s old side Chester City, aren’t entitled to the 20% sell-on which was included in the terms of the 26-year-old’s move to the Blues in January 2007.

A deal of an initial £100,000 and another £100,000 based on appearances and relating to Town’s league performance plus 20% of any future profit was agreed when Walters made the switch, having impressed former manager Jim Magilton in the third round FA Cup ties between the sides earlier in the month.

Town are likely to have paid most but not all of the second £100,000 and, having sold the Republic of Ireland B international to Stoke for a fee of £2.75 million rising to £3.25 million, the old Chester City would have received a windfall which in time could potentially have been worth more than £600,000.

The new Chester FC begin life in the Evo-Stick League Division One North, the eighth tier of the pyramid, on August 28th when they take on Warrington Town away.

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Bluestu added 08:39 - Aug 19 I agree that a donation to chester would be an honourable thing to do and would please me that the club i support haven't totally got lost into the modern greedy world of top level football.
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BlueBoots added 08:44 - Aug 19 Here's a nice gesture for Chester that should suit both clubs; send them Pablo on loan for the season - his wages probably add up to the £600k the old Chester would have received for their 20% share of the Walters transfer...
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corshamblue added 08:58 - Aug 19 A payment in kind would go a very long way for the New Chester and make a real statement to clubs like Cardiff and Crystal Palace about honesty and integrity. Not sure this will happen though, this is a business after all is said and done!
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BlooooCD added 09:00 - Aug 19 We need to look forward and if anyone owes Chester it is surely Walters, ask him to give away his fee.... No Chance!!! This is business (how many clubs gave us money when we were in an abyss?!?!?!) and any money should be put toward bringing in new players for our club... With the recent arrival of Bellamy and Cardiff's finincial woe's surely we can unsettle and grab Chopra! He is definately the best player we have been looking at by a mile!

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Gilesy added 09:18 - Aug 19 Sod giving the money to the new Chester FC, they're a completely different club for whom Walters never played. If anyone's going to get anything, how about giving it to the numerous small companies who suffered when the old Chester City went out of business? I wonder, legally, if the official receiver or HMRC wouldn't have something pretty stern to say if anything like this did happen?

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tractorboybig added 09:24 - Aug 19 Stop living in a dream world. We are NOT going to get a good striker coming here. They wil be a promising youngster on loan or an old has been who is not wanted anywhere else.
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BlooooCD added 09:30 - Aug 19 tractorboybig - I fear that you may be right - But please let me live the dream until soemone like 'Old man Clegg' wakes me up! ha ha! Surely if the thousands of fans can see what we need - The Old fart must see it too?........ If not - He needs to go to Specsavers!
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billbao added 09:36 - Aug 19 Really glad Walters didn't go to QPR, he inevitably would have come back and scored against us. Bit hard on Chester, but rules are rules. The club we bought Walters from doesn't exist any more, so there is no one for us to pay. http://itsgettingbetterandbetterandbetter.blogspot.com/2010/08/24million-for-war
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LowerNorth added 09:56 - Aug 19 Got to love peoples gesture of some of the comments on here to give New Chester some money they are not entitled ... However, we've developed the player over the last years ... payed his conderable higher wages.. (and then no-doubt paid him even more.. when Stoke tapped him up before) ... As mentioned we received zero help when we were in the strife and other clubs took advantage .. a club going under is effectively bad management .. Yes sad to see ... but why reward the new owners ... who probably took everything over for peanuts! Agree if people want a good gesture ... give them a friendly every year and those poeple who are saying give Chester money can go along and support the team and chuck a few quid in the bucket!... I wonder if you will all go and feel so strong about the situation then????? Or a real good gesture use some of it for local charities ... not another club!! The 'real' Ipswich Way!! Up the Town!

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cphtractor added 10:05 - Aug 19 I am all for New Chester gesture.
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dubblue added 10:07 - Aug 19 Blueboots was going to suggest the same thing! There would appear to be three choices - offer a pre-season friendly to the new Chester, offer them some payment or pay a sum to the administrators of the old Chester. There must be alot of small local businesses who took a hit or would the money end up with HM revenue?
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ITFC1985 added 10:10 - Aug 19 Why should we give the "new Chester" any money? we dont owe them anything i wouldve been happy for the club to give Chester City some cash as thats who we purchased Walters from but unfortunately they dont exist anymore, i can assure you that no other club would ever be stupid enough to do this, i never knew the 'Ipswich way' was to throw money away.......
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BlueBoots added 10:10 - Aug 19 Following up from my flippant suggestion, why not contact the liquidators of the old Chester City FC to obtain a list of any unpaid creditors? If any goodwill gesture payment is to be made, surely they're the most deserving recipients?
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notoriousITFC added 10:23 - Aug 19 People need to understand how difficult it is to bring someone like Chopra to us. In my opinion its not going to happen! Last season he was on £20K pw and was due a rise after his goals scored at the end of last season. Our highest wage earner is on around £12k. it's all very well saying bring in Chopra, bring in Ebanks-Blake... I more than anyone would love to see him here, but it annoys me when people blast out remarks about signing big players as if it were as easy as landing someone on a game of football manager.

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BlooooCD added 10:30 - Aug 19 I fear that too many are getting carried away with giving Mr Evans cash away?!?! A story if you like: If you bought an antique that proved to be a shrewd investment and you sold it on for a tidy profit would you then run around the town looking desperately for the person you bought it from to share your new found wealth??? Ofcourse not - Instead I would suggest you might find further antiques that are worth more to then enhance your collection of prized assets - Come on!!! The old club Chester has gone - people took a hit, but thats business... We have to re-invest this money in OUR club!!!!

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ITFC1985 added 10:41 - Aug 19 too right BlooooCD
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captain_tubbs added 11:31 - Aug 19 Do people honestly think Chopra will be on less than Walters, dream on !
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Keano_COYB added 12:12 - Aug 19 I'd be fairly jarred off if I was RK, Evans & Clegg told him to get rid of the dead wood and pointless high earning benchwarmers and he'd be given money to play with.. So Mr Evans.. Keane has identified the players he wants (Chopra/McCormack/Scotland) it's down to you to put the money in and do the deals!
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Mungo added 13:11 - Aug 19 Re a proposed payment to the 'new' Chester - Nice idea in principle but not in reality. I very much doubt that the 'new' Chester are making much of an attempt to settle the debts of the 'old' Chester, leaving much of the ordinary creditors, the printers, the flower sellers etc, high and dry. I've also never forgiven the 'old' Chester' for their role in unsettling JW a few years ago. Offer the 'new' Chester a pre season friendly if we must (long way to go though) but I see little point in sending them money we don't owe them. They can't avoid the debts of the old regime and expect to profit from the assets.

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Help added 13:27 - Aug 19 Thanks Warnock for coming in and upping the price Stoke paid for him, much appreciated. He was never coming to London as he wanted to go back up north but your timely intervention was much appreciated.
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