Concerned Tam McManus has called for Billy Gilmour to ramp up his game time away from Brighton amid talk of a return to Rangers.
The Ibrox academy graduate has stalled since exploding onto the Chelsea first-team scene - where he lifted the Champions League - after his move to Brighton hasn't gone to plan. He's started just twice under new boss Roberto de Zerbi after being brought in by Graham Potter and hasn't been used at all since February.
In the English Premier League, Moises Caicedo, Pascal Gross and Alexis Mac Allister are all ahead of the 21-year-old in the pecking order, and the playmaker appears to be drifting from Steve Clarke's Scotland thoughts. Callum McGregor, Ryan Jack, Scott McTominay, Stuart Armstrong, Ryan Christie, Lewis Ferguson and John McGinn were all handed midfielder roles against Cyprus and Spain while Gilmour didn't make it off the bench during either Euro 2024 qualifier.
PLZ Football Show host Peter Martin floated the potential of a move to Rangers this summer to save his Scotland career, stating: "I'd like to see him back at Rangers. Playing regularly, rather than sitting in the Premier League wasting his time when quite simply some managers don't fancy him."
Fellow pundit McManus added: "I think it's more the physicality down there with Billy Gilmour. I think he is a phenomenal football player but it just hasn't worked. He has struggled to get into the Brighton team, and they are doing really well. He has got to play every week somewhere."
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