Charlie Adam has told BBC Radio 5 Live Sport that Rangers academy product Billy Gilmour is Scotland’s ‘best technical player’.
In 2017, Gilmour left Rangers for Chelsea despite the Glasgow giants trying to do everything in their power to keep their rising star.
Since swapping the Scottish Premiership for England’s top-flight, Gilmour has tasted first-team football at the Bridge and he is continuing to showcase why he is one player for the future.
Adam stated that the 19-year-old has ‘everything’ in his game and he is hoping that he can earn minutes at Chelsea during these coming months, so he can represent his country at the Euros.
“Billy Gilmour is probably our best technical player that we have,” said Adam. “The young lad has got everything. He can hold the ball, he can play around the corner and he sees things.
“He sees things quicker than any of the players in that Scotland squad because of his height. He knows that he has to use his brain quicker.
“I just hope he can find a way of getting a game from now until the end of the season in a very good Chelsea team because I would love for him to be at the Euros expressing himself.
“For me, he’s as good as what we have produced in a long time.”
The key thing for Scotland is hoping that during these coming years there is a conveyor belt of Gilmour-like players coming through the ranks.
Whilst England’s resources and finances are far ahead of those in Scotland, they too struggled with finding those creative players, that technical talent and now they cannot stop them from coming through the doors.
If Scotland can get onto that path, and Gilmour is an example that it can happen, then more major tournaments might just await the tartan army.
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