[Albion] Napoli interested in Billy Gilmour **Sold 30/08/24**

[LamieRobertson]

I think THPP is concerned about wee Billy leaving , rather than another club merely being interested. Eh, @Tom Hark Preston Park

That’s how I read it….bit of an over reaction by CJ imo….still he hasn’t got where he is today without a bit of over reaction


Any excuse to add this re the CJ bit

 

[Springal]

 

[Deadly Danson]

 

[Smithy]

Maybe the manager doesn't see Gilmour fitting into his plans.

 

[chaileyjem]

Actually everything i've said on this thread up til now is nonsense. Ha ha .

 

[CHAPPERS]

Maybe the manager doesn't see Gilmour fitting into his plans.

But he’s only wee.

 

[Flounce]

Disappointed will not cover how I’ll feel if we sell WBG for 12 million.

Is Alex Crook a chancer?

Has FH really had enough time with WBG to decide he wants to bin him? At that price that is exactly what we’d be doing

 

[chaileyjem]

That’s how I read it….bit of an over reaction by CJ imo….still he hasn’t got where he is today without a bit of over reaction

Yep. I've been done up like a kipper here. !!

 

[y2dave]

WBG is a fine player but I’d imagine we’d have to seriously consider offers of around £30m. Two years remaining on his contract and possibly some doubt on his role next season. Could be the right time to sell.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Which bag of numbers has Crook picked £12m from..the havnt a clue one? £12M.??

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Blimey indeed. We just bought a somewhat highly rated Eredivisie midfielder for £30m and a young winger with barely any experience for £35m.

Billy Gilmour is a 23-year-old central midfielder who started some 40 games for his mid-table Premier League (the best league in the world) club last season. Why on earth would we let him go for "far below £40m"?

We paid 9m for him, according to reports. I don’t think he’s added 31m to his price tag in his time with us.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

£12m!?

 

[Mancgull]

two years left on his contract. If he’s not going to extend then his value decreases if he stays with us this season. However, it’s going to take more than £8/12m to get him in this window.

 

[Han Solo]

We paid 9m for him, according to reports. I don’t think he’s added 31m to his price tag in his time with us.

Chelseas inability to put a decent value on their players is going to play no role in Billys next transfer fee.

 

[Freddo]

£12m would be dreadful business if we were to sell.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Interesting. Putting aside the fact I don’t particularly rate him, I also don’t see a place for him in our team now with how FH likes to set up. If we could get north of £25m for him I’d snap their hand off.

£50m in from him and Undav to spend on an upgrade to our team would be immense business.

Would be a great opportunity for him over there too.

Disagree on Undav.
£25 - £35m Gilmour seems about right.

He’d be sensational in Serie A.

 

[elwheelio]

I'm relaxed if he goes. He's neat and tidy but not much more than that. He has zero goal threat and isn't particularly strong in the challenge. He's a useful squad player here but if his leaving means we can get better players in, I'm all for it.

 

[macbeth]

i can see why we’d sell him. doesn’t offer enough defensively and doesn’t offer anything going forward. what he does do very well is retain possession, and is very good at recycling the ball, but i’m not sure how much room there is for a player who doesn’t contribute much in either final third in FH’s system. £12 seems ridiculously low, however. i would say, gruda aside, we probably need to focus on bringing in a few home-grown player is he goes

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Quicker feet and more interested in playing a defence splitting forward pass than any of our other midfielders and you want to take a flight to Italy with him to dump him and eat a f***ing pizza? I guess you’d have some Prosecco with it too? Oh and a pilots’s licence? In your dreams

Another interesting take…..

Awaiting a video from last season covering all of this
Played a beautiful pass to Undav vs Newcastle, and a decent PL player, just not great for me.

When are you back - I think we’ll have a great chat.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Doesn't this report/post make it clear that this is the case. "[Billy is] a very important player and at the moment they are not open to listening to offers for him."

Isn’t that the starting point for the vast majority of player sales we make? We’d sabotage our negotiating position from the off if we declared he was surplus to requirements.

What makes this all tough is the fact that he comes across as an extremely decent human being and in the right system (not Hürzeler’s imho) he is a top level midfielder.