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Signing Billy Gilmour in July 2017 was one of Chelsea’s academy’s biggest recruitment triumphs given the European-wide competition for Scotland’s best player in a generation and the process was smoothed by the man who would eventually give the teenager his senior debut.
Chelsea may have a singular talent in Billy Gilmour but they broke the rules to sign him
March 5, 2020
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Naomi Wittman
Signing Billy Gilmour in July 2017 was one of Chelsea’s academy’s biggest recruitment triumphs given the European-wide competition for Scotland’s best player in a generation and the process was smoothed by the man who would eventually give the teenager his senior debut.