Everton tipped to make Billy Gilmour swoop

Everton might effectively make a transfer for Chelsea teenager Billy Gilmour this summer time, in accordance with journalist Paul Brown.

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Chatting with GIVEMESPORT, the switch insider revealed that the Toffees might swoop for the Scotland worldwide earlier than the tip of the window, with these at Stamford Bridge mentioned to be prone to sanction a mortgage departure.

Brown acknowledged: “Gilmour is a extremely fascinating one. He clearly has a large future, however I don’t assume he’s going to play very a lot for Chelsea this season and they might positively be occupied with one other mortgage.  He’s clearly a participant that Lampard introduced via and he performed his finest video games for Chelsea underneath him.

“Is he able to play each week in that form of position? It’s a key position for the membership and that’s the large query mark as a result of he didn’t have a incredible season on mortgage at Norwich.

“However I feel by the tip of the window, relying on what different enterprise Everton get performed, you possibly can effectively see a transfer for Billy Gilmour.”

This follows a current report from talkSPORT which recommended that Everton supervisor Frank Lampard has been given the ‘inexperienced gentle’ to safe a short lived deal for the 21-year-old, with the participant mentioned to be eager to reunite with the person who handed him his Premier League debut with Chelsea.

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It has confirmed to be a tough final 12 months for the younger playmaker, having suffered relegation throughout what was a combined mortgage stint at Norwich Metropolis, earlier than enduring additional heartbreak at worldwide stage as Steve Clarke’s facet missed out on World Cup qualification.

A 12 months on from catching the attention for his nation at Euro 2020 – throughout which he was dubbed “fantastic” by Jose Mourinho – the previous Rangers youth star is at the moment in a state of flux after having been removed from the first-team squad by Thomas Tuchel throughout Chelsea’s tour of the USA.

Seemingly surplus to necessities at his mother or father membership, there might effectively be no higher place for Gilmour to kickstart his profession than underneath the watchful eye of the aforementioned Lampard, with the 44-year-old having been the person handy him his probability throughout their time collectively at Stamford Bridge.

It was underneath the Englishman’s tutelage that the £10.8m-rated gem actually started to flourish at senior stage, notably placing in a man-of-the-match show in a 2-0 victory over Liverpool within the FA Cup in March 2020.

That efficiency was met with lavish reward from the sometimes hard-to-please Roy Keane, with the Sky Sports pundit suggesting that the highly-rated Scot appeared like a “world-class” participant in that win over the Reds.

Probabilities have been few and much between since then – with simply 22 appearances for the Blues to his title in all competitions – though a transfer to Goodison Park might provide the proper platform for the £28k-per-week playmaker to blossom.

As for the Merseysiders, there could be few complaints about bringing in a younger and hungry expertise reminiscent of Gilmour, significantly amid the lack of switch exercise at the moment, with Lampard certain to like the possibility to reunite with certainly one of his former gamers.

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