Exclusive: Teen sensation wanted by West Ham valued at jawdropping £60m+
Billy Gilmour is valued by Chelsea at more than £60million less than three years after moving from Rangers in his mid-teens, Football Insider understands.
The Ibrox academy product, 18, has been hailed by pundits and his manager Frank Lampard as as a superstar in the making and even Roy Keane has claimed he looked like a “world-class player” the first time he set eyes on him.
A Chelsea source has told Football Insider the club already rate Gilmour among their most valued talents and privately value him at more than £60m after just a handful of senior matches.
The Scotland Under-21 international had ex-players drooling with consecutive man-of-the-match performances in televised Chelsea wins against Liverpool and Everton in early March.
He was just starting to establishing himself in the Blues first team before football was suspended on 13 March.
Lampard has subsequently admitted he may have been “too conservative” in not promoting Gilmour to his starting XI even earlier after astonishingly precocious performances in training.
The teenager’s development is no surprise to the coaches at Rangers who fought hard to stop him quitting in the summer of 2016.
The Ibrox club eventually accepted defeat as Gilmour was enticed to Chelsea for a £500,000 compensation fee.
His value has rocketed more than 100 times as a result of his immediate impact for the Premier League club.
West Ham manager David Moyes has recently admitted he would ask for Gilmour in exchange if Chelsea make a formal move for Declan Rice this summer.
The youngster has made just one Premier League start among seven appearances for the west London club.
In other Rangers news, it can be REVEALED that English big guns are working on a double Ibrox swoop as offer submitted.