Boyhood rangers midfielder leaves ibrox to chelsea, opens up on reasons why

Boyhood rangers midfielder leaves ibrox to chelsea, opens up on reasons why

Regarding his decision to quit childhood idols Rangers without making a first-team appearance, Billy Gilmour has been candid.

The Scotland midfielder had been identified as Ibrox’s future star after making a name for himself in the younger ranks, but he had also

begun to draw interest from other areas. Chelsea, one of the biggest teams in the Premier League, expressed interest in him. After meeting Frank Lampard, he decided to go at the age of 16.

Gilmour’s decision to leave the Light Blues at such an early age was largely influenced by his long-held dream of playing in the Premier League. But there was also the incident when he was passed over for a first-team participation.

The 22-year-old Brighton star revealed, “I was in one of the squads for a Cup game at home,” in an interview for the SFA documentary on his career.

Before the game, Graeme Murty essentially grabbed me aside and told me to “look, not on the bench, just in the squad.”

“I had the impression that I would start that game on the bench and possibly even start.

“Football has peculiar ways of working. Of course, I wish I could still be playing for the Rangers.

“But in the end, I moved on, and perhaps that was a small part of my journey that eased my decision.”

Gilmour acknowledges that there were many reasons for sticking with the Gers on the list of advantages and disadvantages he and his family prepared for each interested team.

“All the pros that we put down were very similar,” he stated. It was exactly the same with Rangers.We can see you more regularly because you’re at home, still playing for a big club, and you’re around the first team.

“At the age of 15, or 16, they are attempting to make the most important choice: where they want to play football.

David Weir was Mark Warburton’s assistant prior to that Murty snub, and he acknowledges that they did everything in their power to convince the gifted player that Rangers was the right place for him to go.

He clarified: “It was just one of those things you want to retain your best players around as a manager or assistant manager. Moreover, Billy was not prepared for the first squad at that point.

“However, we also acknowledged that Billy would have had a wide range of options and choices. He would have had the entire world to himself.

Therefore, you must also go make your case and attempt to convince Billy’s family that he may have had a career with the Rangers. In the end, though, I believe everyone realized that it wasn’t. However, I believe it was our responsibility to try and convince him that it was.

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