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title: "All you need to know about new Chelsea signing Billy Gilmour"
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language: "en-GB"
author: "Ryan Darby"
section: "Chelsea Features & Analysis"
published: "2017-05-09T14:36:22Z"
modified: "2017-05-09T14:36:22Z"
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# All you need to know about new Chelsea signing Billy Gilmour

On Tuesday afternoon, news broke of a transfer story that had been mulling along for a number of weeks.

Rangers [confirmed](https://twitter.com/RangersFC/status/861945191305027584https://twitter.com/RangersFC/status/861945191305027584) that a deal had been agreed that would see Billy Gilmour move to Chelsea after impressing in the youth ranks with the Scottish Premiership side.

Gilmour is highly thought of in Scotland was being scouted by many teams around Europe, but Chelsea appear to have won the race to sign the 15-year-old.

Here is everything you need to know about the young midfielder.