£38000 per week Star has opened up on the decision to leave boyhood heroes Rangers without playing a first-team game.

£38000 per week Star has opened up on the decision to leave boyhood heroes Rangers without playing a first-team game.

£38000 per week Star has opened up on the decision to leave boyhood heroes Rangers without playing a first-team game.

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 had always harboured ambitions of playing in the Premier League and that ultimately played a massive part in his decision to

quit the Light Blues at such a young age. A moment in which he was snubbed for a first-team appearance

also had a role to play though.

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.

“Graeme Murty’s basically pulled me before the game and says ‘Look, not on the bench, just in the squad.’

“I felt like I was going to be on the bench and maybe even come on that game.

“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.

“So you also have got to go and state your case and try and persuade Billy and the family that his future could have been with Rangers.

As it turned out it wasn’t, and I think everybody completely understood that.

But I think it was our duty to try and persuade him that it was.”

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