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Billy Gilmour's Brighton revival will be complete after 2 transfer exits as Steve Clarke hails midfielder 'positive'

Billy Gilmour went from boy wonder to forgotten man in 18 months.

Suddenly though, it’s all things Brighton beautiful for the midfielder, who was yesterday named in Steve Clarke ’s squad for the upcoming Euro qualifiers against Norway and Georgia after a remarkable resurgence to his career with Roberto De Zerbi’s classy English south-coast outfit. Still only 21, the former Rangers and Chelsea midfielder has been through the mill since bursting on to the international stage with a stunning display against England at Wembley in the summer of 2021.

That should have heralded the start of something but Gilmour contracted Covid immediately after that match, missed Scotland’ s final game in the tournament and little has gone right since. Unable to break into Chelsea’s first team, a loan spell at Norwich ended in relegation before signing for Brighton the week before his manager Graham Potter was lured to Stamford Bridge.

An unsettling period followed with Gilmour either injured or stuck on the bench but seven games since the end of April coincided with Brighton’s surge to a Europa League spot. And while he would have been in Clarke’s squad anyway, given the Scotland gaffer’s loyalty to the youngster, there was no hiding his delight at the upturn in his fellow Ayrshireman’s fortunes.

Clarke said: “He’s done well, Billy. It was obviously a tough situation for him when he got there. He was competing against two world-class players in [Moises] Caicedo and [Alexis] Mac Allister, and it took him a long time to work his way into the team.

“I spoke to him briefly in the last camp and told him just to knuckle down and get on with it. You can’t feel sorry for yourself. But since he has come into the team his performances have been

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