Ibrox View: PL boss admission will be salt in sore wounds for Rangers fans
RANGERS OPINION
Billy Gilmour’s first team breakthrough at Chelsea will no doubt be a little bittersweet for Rangers fans everywhere.
On the one hand, it’s nice to see a local lad come good at one of the biggest clubs in Europe, and if he continues on his current trajectory there is every chance that he could have a long and fruitful career at the very top of the professional game.
On the other, it would have been nice to have had him in the senior setup at Ibrox for at least a little while.
The teenage sensation left the Gers for a fee of around £500,000 back in 2017, and has slowly been working his way through the ranks in London ever since, before bursting into the first team picture with an impressive display against Liverpool in the FA Cup at the beginning of March.
That outing, in which he completed 37 out of 44 attempted passes and had a dribble success rate of 100%, as per Wyscout, could be the start of something very special for the youngster.
But according to manager Frank Lampard, he could have been playing first team football for a long time already.
As quoted by the Scottish Sun, he said: “People probably think I threw him in against Liverpool but he probably deserved to play a bit earlier by how he was training.
“It was probably me being a bit conservative with him.
