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No go for Gilmour – now’s not the time for Gers move

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If you were to ask Rangers fans if they would prefer to sign Billy Gilmour or Kenny McLean, it would be a pretty lop sided poll.

If you asked Scotland fans who they would rather have in the starting XI, Gilmour or McLean, the poll, again, would be a landslide for the Chelsea midfielder – so why can’t Norwich City manager Daniel Farke see that picking the 19-year old would almost instantly improve his team?

As reported by Vital Rangers earlier this week, the Canaries gaffer was less than impressed about having to justify why Gilmour hadn’t started any of his side’s last four Premier League games despite being a standout for his country during the international break.

The move to Norwich had seemed a sensible one on paper given their style of play and the relationship between the two managers but I don’t think Thomas Tuchel will be too impressed with how much time the precocious Scot is getting on the park.

The role that Gilmour plays for Chelsea and Scotland is exactly the same as the one we ask our central midfielder to play, John Lundstram proving the doubters wrong in recent weeks with some dominant performances, keeping Steven Davis out the team in the process – a move for the youngster would make sense, wouldn’t it?

Wrong. At the start of the season it would have with Ryan Jack out injured, Glen Kamara suspended for four European games and Nnamdi Ofoborh suffering the worst luck imaginable, however, as we have seen in recent weeks, we now have two players who can play that central role plus our own Stephen Kelly.

Jack is on the mend and expected to return to full training soon so their simply wouldn’t be room for Gilmour, transfers are often about timing, in the summer it was perfect, now, it just wouldn’t make sense.

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