Reece James' father has revealed the Chelsea starlet has played in every position during his young career.

The 19-year-old is primarily considered a right-back and has shone in that role in his career so far, especially on loan at Wigan last season.

"Reece would never play in the position that he played at Chelsea," his father said to Alex Goldberg. "If Reece was a central midfielder, he'd play centre-back for me. When he was young and playing at centre-forward, he'd play left-back for me, he'd play right-back for me.

"Reece has actually played every single position on the pitch.

"I never used to believe in putting numbers on the back of shirts. If you give someone the number 9, he automatically thinks 'I'm a centre-forward', but if you just put them out there and say 'you're going to play here, you're going to play there and the next ten minutes you're going to play there and you're going to play there', they all know 'I might have to play in defence' but there's no numbers to confuse them."