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Billy Gilmour

SydneyChelsea said:
What do you mean? Gilmour made his first EPL start against Everton, destroyed them too in a 4-0 win, and then lockdown and his knee injury happened. 

I mean he's definitely had the bad game here and there, and also has not had the misfortune of major injury. Unlike Gilmour though, he wasn't banished because of it. That is the reality of a young player in a top team, though.
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Completely forgot about that.

 
For me the sad thing is not that we’ve substituted him with Enzo, who is a great player, but that we sent him away and kept Jorginho when it was blatantly obvious the he was perfect rotation option for Jorginho.

 
Wonderful player but we made the right choice selling him. He never would have developed under us as he has at Brighton. 

The mistake we made was not including a buy back clause considering how cheap we sold him for in the end. 

 
Looks great in a two man pivot at Brighton. Why can’t we just trust and give a two man pivot proper time to build. 

 
Remodez said:
Wonderful player but we made the right choice selling him. He never would have developed under us as he has at Brighton. 

The mistake we made was not including a buy back clause considering how cheap we sold him for in the end. 
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The mistake was not selling Jorginho, who can't get in the Goonies as a starter, the mistake was keeping the generational talent Kai, who looked awful yesterday for the Goonies, and our mistake was selling Gilmour who has thrived in the 15 months he's been away. 

Who have we brought in under out new owners who is better than Gilmour? I honestly think we could have another salah moment coming here, especially if he carries on his upward trajectory. 

In the past now, he's going to walk into my fantasy football team next game week... Super sub. 

 
olderschoolcfc said:
The mistake was not selling Jorginho, who can't get in the Goonies as a starter, the mistake was keeping the generational talent Kai, who looked awful yesterday for the Goonies, and our mistake was selling Gilmour who has thrived in the 15 months he's been away. 

Who have we brought in under out new owners who is better than Gilmour? I honestly think we could have another salah moment coming here, especially if he carries on his upward trajectory. 

In the past now, he's going to walk into my fantasy football team next game week... Super sub. 
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He was not better than Jorginho at the time. Harvetz played a completely different role, not sure why you brought him up. 

I get people are upset but trying to compare Gilmour to Salah or imply he can be world class is a bit extreme. He still has many things to work on and even then the odds of him becoming world class is very slim. He can become a very good player though but in order for him to reach that he had to be sold. He would have just ended up going on countless loans if we still had him. 

 
Was never too sure on Billy, I saw a very talented kid but I also thought he might go down the Josh McEachran path, another player who had excellent creativity but lacked the physicality to really make it. 

I think he'll be a good player for sure, still very young. 

 
I wanted to keep Billy and was disappointed when we sold him to Brighton. But I do think he might struggle to make it to the top. A fantastic little player, who will put in some very decent performances but I think he suffers from that lack of consistency that separates those who make it to the very top. The pundits were bigging him up before the Scotland v England game the other night but he didn't do a great deal and when you compare him to the likes of Bellingham and Foden, he looks a million miles away.

 
Nibs said:
I wanted to keep Billy and was disappointed when we sold him to Brighton. But I do think he might struggle to make it to the top. A fantastic little player, who will put in some very decent performances but I think he suffers from that lack of consistency that separates those who make it to the very top. The pundits were bigging him up before the Scotland v England game the other night but he didn't do a great deal and when you compare him to the likes of Bellingham and Foden, he looks a million miles away.
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^^^ THIS

Always felt that people went overboard when he put in the odd 7 out of 10 performance, and then kindly looked the other way when he was anonymous and irrelevant.  

Brighton this season, for all the "plaudits" Gilmour is getting, he's pulling a 6.61 average out of 10 on whoscored, comfortably the worst of the 2-3-1 ahead of the defence in Brighton's formation.

We did the right thing in selling, albeit the fee was perhaps too low.

 
Sexyfootball said:
^^^ THIS

Always felt that people went overboard when he put in the odd 7 out of 10 performance, and then kindly looked the other way when he was anonymous and irrelevant.  

Brighton this season, for all the "plaudits" Gilmour is getting, he's pulling a 6.61 average out of 10 on whoscored, comfortably the worst of the 2-3-1 ahead of the defence in Brighton's formation.

We did the right thing in selling, albeit the fee was perhaps too low.
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I think he'll become good eventually but I don't think he was ever going to develop at Chelsea, he's still pretty raw a lot of the time, I think he needs to play consistently at a decent level to get better. 

As good as some prospects can come at other clubs, it doesn't necessarily mean they'll be great at big clubs, because they require a lot of playing time. Which is a sacrifice we can't always make. 

 
This lad has some of the best PR in the league. Dribbles through some knackered barely trying United players after coming on as a late sub when the game was won.

Only mistake we made was selling him for so cheap, otherwise he would never be a starter for us, he isn't even a starter for Brighton.

 
Just watching Billy Gilmour what an absolute steal at 9mill ,Brighton shafted us again

 
And then again, despite a comprehensive crowd-pleasing win, Billy pulls out a stunning 6.6 rating on Whoscored LOL ... if he continues his improvement he might even catch up with James Milner soon !

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