Billy Gilmour has admitted he wanted to stay at Chelsea last summer until he learned that he had to find a new club. The 21-year-old was once expected to enjoy a bright future at Stamford Bridge but he was controversially offloaded by Thomas Tuchel for just £9million.
Speaking in the official Brighton programme, as quoted by Sussex Live, Gilmour explained how he quickly became an outsider at Cobham training ground – which came as quite a shock. The Scotland international said: "After my (Norwich) loan, I still wanted to be at Chelsea, to be a part of their first-team plans but quite quickly in pre-season I knew that wasn’t going to be the case.
"But I didn’t want to go out on loan again, I wanted to find a home, to play for a team and be settled. I had other clubs interested but once I knew of Brighton’s interest, it was a pretty straightforward decision for me to make.
