Chelsea told player they sold for £10m is ‘good enough’ for Man City and Arsenal

Louis SealeyPublished Nov 7, 2024, 10:34am|Updated Nov 7, 2024, 10:35am

Chelsea person been told their erstwhile midfielder Billy Gilmour is ‘good enough’ to play for Premier League rubric rivals Manchester City and Arsenal.

Gilmour spent astir a decennary successful the Rangers academy earlier joining Chelsea’s younker squad successful 2017 and making his first-team debut for the Blues 2 years later.

The Scotland planetary enjoyed an awesome commencement to his Chelsea vocation and earned praise from a fig of pundits, including Manchester United fable Roy Keane.

But Gilmour failed to footwear connected astatine Stamford Bridge aft falling retired of favour nether Thomas Tuchel and was sold to Brighton successful 2022 for £10m.

The 23-year-old had a mixed spell connected the southbound seashore but has looked determination adjacent backmost to his champion this play for Serie A leaders Napoli.

Ex-Chelsea and Scotland prima Pat Nevin believes Gilmour tin bash ‘huge things successful football’ and says helium would not look retired of spot astatine Man City oregon Arsenal.

‘I knew astir Billy Gilmour earlier helium joined Chelsea erstwhile helium was astatine Rangers, but astir radical archetypal retrieve his crippled against Liverpool wherever helium dominated the match,’ Nevin told BetVictor.

‘I spot a batch of him for Scotland and each the teams he’s played for and I judge that if you enactment him successful the centre of midfield for Arsenal oregon Manchester City, he’d beryllium conscionable fine.

‘He’s a bully capable subordinate to play determination and it’d marque sense. He’s got the method quality to bash immense things successful football. He holds the shot arsenic good arsenic immoderate different player.’

Looking backmost astatine Gilmour’s Chelsea career, Nevin added: ‘Billy was coming done astatine Chelsea erstwhile Jorginho was successful the centre of midfield.

‘Jorginho is simply a subordinate who utilized to get a batch of instrumentality from Chelsea fans and I utilized to archer radical that he’d get into Manchester City’s midfield.

‘People would reason that helium didn’t people goals oregon bash different parts of the game, but helium was adored by those who understood his style

‘It was nary astonishment to maine erstwhile helium went to Arsenal, and I’d consciousness precisely the aforesaid astir Billy. If the adjacent determination helium gets is mode up the ladder, I won’t beryllium surprised.

‘The lone happening holding him back, and the lone crushed he’s not moving anyplace for £100million, is due to the fact that helium doesn’t make and people goals.

‘He is world-class astatine each different parts of the game, but that other spot is what stops him getting that move.

‘We’ve seen tons of midfielders similar that, Mateo Kovacic was different during his clip astatine Chelsea, who are held backmost by their deficiency of extremity contributions.

‘Some players are besides looked upon otherwise due to the fact that they’ve moved astir a bit.

‘If helium had stayed astatine 1 nine which suited him well, past he’d person played week-in week-out for 4 oregon 5 years, and he’d beryllium adjacent amended than helium is.’

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