Billy Gilmour

The 21-year-old was made to wait over his transfer deadline day proposed move after concerns about injuries in the Blues' midfield, but the club have ...

[the 2-1 defeat away at Southampton this week](/sport/football/southampton-chelsea-result-armstrong-b1021909.html) - after Conor Gallagher was suspended alongside a long-term injury to N'Golo Kante. [possible signing of Ajax midfielder Edson Alvarez,](/sport/football/chelsea-fc-transfer-news-edson-alvarez-b1022206.html) but the Blues have ultimately chosen to accept a deal with Brighton nonetheless. [helsea](/topic/chelsea) have accepted a bid from [Brighton](/topic/brighton) to sell [Billy Gilmour](/topic/billy-gilmour) to Brighton in a permanent deal.

Brighton & Hove Albion have agreed a fee with Chelsea for the permanent transfer of Scotland international Billy Gilmour, The Athletic understands.

[Levi Colwill](https://theathletic.com/football/player/levi-colwill-F5zFxUaVmQ1eqJUi/) from Chelsea this window and Premier League sides cannot loan more than one player from the same club at any one time. [Brighton](https://theathletic.com/football/team/brighton-and-hove-albion/) & Hove Albion have agreed a fee with [Chelsea](https://theathletic.com/football/team/chelsea/) for the permanent transfer of Scotland international [Billy Gilmour](https://theathletic.com/football/player/billy-gilmour-GoBKml3kL7lFjdSP/), The Athletic understands. [The Athletic reported earlier this week that Brighton were keen on a deal for Gilmour](https://theathletic.com/3549934/2022/08/30/chelsea-brighton-gilmour-loan-transfer/) — but that the clubs would need to agree a permanent transfer due to [Premier League](https://theathletic.com/football/premier-league/) loan rules.

The 21-year-old joined from Rangers back in 2017 and went on to make 40 appearances for the Blues, and was part of Chelsea's Champions League-winning squad in ...

[Chelsea](/chelsea), [Premier League](/premier-league), [Brighton And Hove Albion](/brighton-and-hove-albion) [Head coach Graham Potter said](https://www.brightonandhovealbion.com/news/2775273/billy-gilmour-signs-from-chelsea): “Billy arrives with a fantastic pedigree, having played in the Premier League and Champions League as well as for Scotland at last year’s Euros. “Now it’s about allowing him the time to get used to a new environment and settling in to our club. He went out on loan last season to Norwich City but the switch to the Canaries didn’t go to plan and he returned to Chelsea this summer. [Chelsea](https://www.sportbible.com/absolute-chelsea) head coach was open to letting the Scotsman leave. The 21-year-old joined from Rangers back in 2017 and went on to make 40 appearances for the Blues, and was part of

Frank Lampard would be out, Thomas Tuchel would be in, and Gilmour would be gone (eventually), on loan to Norwich City. That didn't really work out as well as ...

By the time he came back several more months later, things were changing at the club. There’s no word at the moment about any sort of buy-back or first-option clauses for us. By the time football came back a few months later, Gilmour had picked up a knee injury.

The Scot has joined the south coast side for an undisclosed fee believed to be around £9million. The 21-year-old spent last season on-loan at Norwich before ...

We can’t wait to work with him." The Scot has joined the south coast side for an undisclosed fee believed to be around £9million. Promoted Stories

Billy Gilmour has completed a permanent transfer to Brighton & Hove Albion. The midfielder arrived at Chelsea in the summer of 2017 from Rangers in his native ...

He impressed in our Academy for two years before breaking into Frank Lampard’s squad early in the 2019/20 campaign. The young Scot was an unused sub in Porto. When football resumed, Gilmour’s season was cut short by an injury at Selhurst Park which ruled him out until December 2020.

Brighton & Hove Albion complete the signing of 21-year-old midfielder Billy Gilmour from Chelsea on a four-year deal.

We can't wait to work with him." [Graham Potter](/people/graham-potter/)'s fifth signing of the summer window following the arrivals of [Pervis Estupinan](/people/pervis-estupinan/), [Julio Enciso](/people/julio-enciso/), [Simon Adingra](/people/simon-adingra/) and [Levi Colwill](/people/levi-colwill/), the latter of whom joining from Chelsea on loan. [Brighton & Hove Albion](/football/brighton-and-hove-albion/) have completed the permanent signing of midfielder [Billy Gilmour](/people/billy-gilmour/) from [Chelsea](/football/chelsea/).

Billy Gilmour, who has 15 caps for his country, has moved to the Amex Stadium, and could make his debut for his new club against Leicester live on Super ...

Billy Gilmour admits it was a 'tough decision' to leave Chelsea but says he could not ignore his desire to play more football after he joined Brighton on a ...

‘Of course it was a tough decision but I wanted to play football, that’s the main aim for me, to come in and enjoy my football and get regular game-time. We can’t wait to work with him.’ [Didier Drogba sends message to new Chelsea signing Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang](https://metro.co.uk/2022/09/02/didier-drogba-sends-message-to-new-chelsea-signing-pierre-emerick-aubameyang-17287060/?ico=more_text_links) Gilmour joins a Brighton side who have enjoyed an impressive start to the new season and sit fourth in the Premier League ahead of this weekend’s clash with newly-promoted Bournemouth. Asked how his move to Brighton came about, Gilmour added: ‘It took a long time, there was a lot of back and forth between Chelsea and Brighton. [Chelsea](https://metro.co.uk/tag/chelsea/?ico=auto_link_sport_P1_LNK1) but says he could not ignore his desire to play more football after he joined Brighton on a permanent transfer.

Billy Gilmour has thanked Chelsea for everything after the midfielder completed a permanent move to Brighton & Hove Albion on transfer deadline day.

Of course, it was a tough decision but I wanted to play football, that's the main aim for me, to come in and enjoy my football and get regular game-time. Gilmour will now go into a Brighton team that play very attractive and modern football under Potter. Gilmour will now play under Graham Potter as he searches for regular minutes in the Premier League. Once a blue, always a blue!" When asked if he needed a fresh start, he replied: "Yeah, I think so. With the way the Scotland midfielder plays, it seems an ideal fit.

Marcos Alonso and Billy Gilmour have penned emotional farewells after completing transfers away from Chelsea this summer to Barcelona and Brighton.

All the people at the club, stadium and training ground thank you. [Taking](https://www.instagram.com/p/CiAY-CVD-0o) to Instagram, Alonso wrote: “Can’t thank you enough for the 6 years we spent together. it was a pleasure to share the changing room with you all these years. Roman Abramovich and Antonio Conte for giving me the chance at the very beginning. [Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang joining Chelsea](https://www.sportbible.com/absolute-chelsea/aubameyang-alonso-chelsea-barcelona-transfer-official-20220901) to link-up with Thomas Tuchel once more. “And of course, to the fans thank you for your support since day 1.

Gilmour joined Chelsea from Rangers aged 16 and showed huge promise after being handed his breakthrough by former manager Frank Lampard and then, initially, ...

The ideal solution would have been maybe that he goes again on loan as the concurrence is huge for us in central midfield and we felt like he is not the age where he can live again with five or seven or eight matches during a whole season to fulfil his own potential so ideally it would have been another loan. Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel admits he wanted Billy Gilmour to head out on loan again this season... 'There's a huge step in between so we were looking.

Thomas Tuchel has explained why Chelsea opted to sell Billy Gilmour to Brighton and replace the youngster with loanee Juventus midfielder Denis Zakaria.

"We try with a mask,” he explained. He can play in a back three. He can play both positions in midfield. “He was a little bit on the edge of surgery or no surgery during the last weeks with N'Golo Kante struggling. “We had high hopes [for him] and he played for us in the first half a year when I was at Chelsea,” Tuchel told reporters. He gives us in my opinion a lot of options because he has a lot of speed, height and physicality to bring to this group.