{"id":818261,"date":"2026-10-30T03:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T03:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/818261\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T03:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T03:52:12","slug":"what-ollie-chessum-will-make-as-part-of-new-leicester-tigers-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/818261\/","title":{"rendered":"What Ollie Chessum will make as part of new Leicester Tigers deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Published: 9 hours ago | 29 October 2026 14:00 EDT
Updated: 9 hours ago | 29 October 2026 14:10 EDT <\/p>\n

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LEICESTER, ENGLAND – OCTOBER 24: Ollie Chessum of Leicester Tigers issues instructions during the Gallagher PREM 2026\/2027 match between Leicester Tigers and Northampton Saints at Mattioli Woods Welford Road Stadium on October 24, 2026 in Leicester, England. (Photo by David Rogers\/Getty Images) \"Google <\/a> <\/p>\n

Leicester<\/a> Tigers have agreed a new two-year deal worth \u00a3500,000 a season with club skipper Ollie Chessum, who will now remain at Welford Road until 2029.<\/p>\n

Chessum, 26, who has been tipped as a future England<\/a> captain, has made 88 appearances for the Tigers since he made his debut in a PREM defeat against Gloucester<\/a> at Kingsholm in August 2020.<\/p>\n

The lock was named by Geoff Parling last season as the Tigers\u2019 youngest captain since Ian \u2018Dosser\u2019 Smith in 1983 and has become a key player for both club and country.<\/p>\n

Chessum, who has won 38 caps for the Red Rose, becomes the second Tigers international after Jack van Poortvliet to sign a new long-term contract to stay at Welford Road.<\/p>\n

A member of the victorious 2025 British and Irish Lions<\/a> tour to Australia, where he earned three Test caps, Chessum said it was an easy decision to recommit to the Tigers, who could go top of the Gallagher PREM table with a win at Bristol<\/a> Bears tomorrow night.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t a difficult decision. I saw what Jack van Poortvliet said when he re-signed last week. It makes it so much easier when you love the club but also love the people in it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got some of my closest mates here, and I think we\u2019re at that turning point in our careers for a lot of us where we\u2019ve gone from being those younger players to now all being in leadership roles, and we can take this place where we want it.<\/p>\n

\u201cAdding to that, we\u2019ve got a real bit of consistency with Geoff (Parling) being here for a second season. I really enjoy working with him, and for me it was just as simple as I couldn\u2019t imagine wearing any other badge on my chest,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

While Parling said: \u201cIt\u2019s just over a year since I asked Chess to captain the club and he\u2019s been brilliant at driving our preparation levels each week.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want our environment to have both a hard edge and be fun, with a real togetherness in the group, and I think his personality fits this really well. The exciting part is that he\u2019s got huge potential to keep pushing and growing his game further for both ourselves and England.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: 9 hours ago | 29 October 2026 14:00 EDT Updated: 9 hours ago | 29 October 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-818261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}