News about Billy Gilmour

Shortly after Kylian Mbappe had departed the scene to join Real Madrid earlier this summer, Paris Saint-Germain head coach Luis Enrique was asked to assess the strength of those who remained under his command in the French capital. With a squad that would be the envy of managers across Europe, Enrique wasn't short of top talents to discuss. But one name immediately sprung to mind. Vitinha. A little twinkle-toed magician in central midfield whom Enrique declared had been PSG's best player last season, even with Mbappe in the team.

Turkgucu Munchen have never had to concern themselves with being mistaken for one of the more established footballing institutions in the Bavarian capital. Formed only 15 years ago, the club has occasionally threatened to climb to the second tier of German football without ever quite getting there. After filing for insolvency a couple of seasons back, they returned to the obscurity of regional leagues. Never the subject of back-page headlines in Bild, this is the way they like it.

A video of the fight has been widely shared on social media showing two grown men wrestling in the stands while punches are thrown. One of the men gets topless after his jumper is dragged over his head, while his assailant ends up on all fours on the stairway as shocked onlookers look on aghast. The scrap is eventually broken up after stewards and fellow fans attempt to restore calm to the unedifying scenes. The shocking display comes after the Tartan Army were widely praised for their good-natured support earlier this summer when they made headlines while abroad in Germany for the Euros, despite the brutal exit Scotland had at the tournament.

Steve Clarke last night refused to single out Grant Hanley after the defender conceded the stoppage-time penalty which continued Scotland's woeful run of results. Two goals down to Poland in the opening game of their Nations League group, the Scots dragged themselves back into the match with second-half strikes from Billy Gilmour and Scott McTominay. Pushing for their first ever win over the Poles in a competitive fixture, Hanley hauled down Nicola Zalewski to gift the visitors their second penalty of the game in the sixth minute of added time.

That Scotland didn't deserve to lose this game offered no real consolation in the end. The statistics now show that the national team have won just one of their last 13 games and find themselves in the midst of their longest winless run at home since 2008. The last victory of any description came in a friendly clash against Gibraltar.

Napoli have completed the signing of Billy Gilmour from Brighton. The Serie A side will pay an initial £12.5m plus performance-based add-ons, with Brighton retaining a sell-on percentage. Gilmour has signed a five-year deal at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona.

Brighton have made a £16.8million bid for Nordsjaelland striker Conrad Harder. The 19-year-old has also received an offer from Sporting Lisbon. Harder has featured in six Danish Superliga matches so far this season, scoring two goals and providing two assists. In total, he has netted nine goals in 40 appearances for Nordsjaelland since making his first-team debut at the end of the 2022-23 campaign.

JACK GAUGHAN: Gilmour starred during Brighton's 2-1 win over McTominay's Manchester United on Saturday afternoon and new head coach Fabian Hurzeler is an admirer of the Scot. But with two years left on his contract, Brighton are open to allowing the 23-year-old to depart the Amex Stadium ahead of the transfer window closing. Antonio Conte has identified Gilmour and McTominay as key signings in a new-look Napoli midfield, with Chelsea striker Romelu Lukaku also set for a £30m move to Italy. Napoli agreed a £25m package for McTominay over the weekend and want both Scotland internationals in Conte's squad to face Parma in Serie A on Saturday.

Andy Gould and Chris Docherty at the Scottish FA deserve real credit for the report unveiled in midweek on improving the pathway to the very top for players aged 16 to 21. Not least for making a 114-page offering on such unsexy fare so interesting, illuminating and worthy of ongoing reflection even after moving through the process of challenging your own preconceptions and closing the laptop.

BRIGHTON 2-1 MANCHESTER UNITED - SAMI MOKBEL AT THE AMEX STADIUM: Cue inquest No 1 in Manchester United's season. You get the impression it won't be the last. There was almost an air of inevitability about it all when Joao Pedro slammed home a header in the 95th minute as Brighton maintained their perfect start to the season. Hope springs eternal at this part of the season. Fans believe things can be different; that their team's faults have been rectified and ironed out.

Billy Gilmour is poised to complete a move to Napoli after the Italian giants agreed a deal with Brighton which could be worth up to £18million. Napoli have been tracking the Scotland midfielder all summer after new boss Antonio Conte identified the 23-year-old playmaker as a key target. Conte's side suffered a shock 3-0 defeat to Verona in last weekend's Serie A opener, a result which only reaffirmed his desire for new recruits.

Brighton are prepared to shatter the Scottish transfer record to land Celtic star Matt O'Riley - and are confident of securing a deal to land the coveted midfielder. O'Riley has been the subject of multiple bids over the summer, the most recent of which came from Europa League winners Atalanta just last week. But a succession of lowball offers from the Serie A side, the last of which was £21.5million plus a further £2m in add-ons, fell short of Celtic's £25m valuation of the 23-year-old Danish international.

Napoli have reportedly stepped up moves for two Premier League players. Napoli director Giovanni Manna is said to have arrived in London on Tuesday to hold talks with a number of Premier League clubs.  The Italian outfit have made an official enquiry about Manchester United midfielder Scott McTominay, according to Corriere dello Sport.

KIERAN GILL IN CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA: Atletico Madrid have had a £33.7million bid accepted for Gallagher, who joined Chelsea at the age of six. He is set to become the latest academy starlet to be sold since the current ownership took over, after Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Mason Mount , Ian Maatsen, Billy Gilmour , Callum Hudson-Odoi, Omari Hutchinson and Lewis Hall. Trevoh Chalobah and Armando Broja may follow Gallagher out of the Cobham exit this summer also.

Brighton have opened negotiations with Celtic over a fee for midfielder Matt O'Riley. Atalanta and Southampton have already had bids rejected for the 23-year-old Denmark international this summer. Now Premier League Brighton - currently in talks with Napoli over a move to Serie A for Billy Gilmour - are the latest club to approach Celtic over a price.

SIMON JONES: Napoli are ready to increase their offer for Brighton midfielder Billy Gilmour after having an £8million bid rejected. The 23-year old Scotland international, who has two years left on contract, is wanted by Antonio Conte and further discussions are expected this week with the Italians confident of reaching agreement. Manager Conte worked with Gilmour at Chelsea, which is where the Scotsman made his breakthrough.

Manager Antonio Conte worked with Gilmour at Chelsea, which is where the 23-year-old made his breakthrough. Gilmour has impressed at Brighton so far, where he made 32 appearances in the league last season, and is expected to have two years left on his contract. But, Conte is understood to be keen to bolster his midfield options following an overhaul of his squad, the Telegraph reports. Conte has so far signed Alessandro Buongiorno from Torino, Rafa Marín from Real Madrid and Leonardo Spinazzola from Roma for a combined total of £40m.

There's nothing more to be gained from Scotland torturing themselves further with the ifs and buts of defeat to Germany in the opening game of Euro 2024. A generational talent, Billy Gilmour might have made a difference in the 5-1 hammering. Drain the glass to the halfway point and, given the chasm between the teams, he might have made no difference at all. It's now pointless debating a game that was analysed to death. What's done is done and a 1-1 draw with Switzerland allows Steve Clarke and his players to move on with a positive mindset. They can now return to their alpine training base in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and breathe a little more easily.

IAN HERBERT IN COLOGNE: A tide of royal blue support on the banks of Rhine lifted Scotland to another level on Wednesday night and kept their place in these championships alive. The team they urged on were confronted by opponents who threatened them and just briefly, looked like they might bury them, but Scotland were lifted to another level. They took the point which means a win against Hungary in Stuttgart on Sunday could take them to the knock-out stages of a tournament for the first time. You would not say it was a European sophistication from Scotland. Just direct, vertical, muscular highly effective football. And it worked. Amid the cacophony of noise, they struck a post and could walk away in the knowledge that that were the better side.

Irrespective of the opponent or the occasion, there's an unshakable principle in football that's stood the test of time. No team has ever lost a goal when they've had ownership of the football. If your players do their utmost to look after it, you've always got a puncher's chance. That's what made Billy Gilmour's exclusion in Munich on Friday all the harder to fathom.

Amid three group-stage exits, two heart-breaking Wembley eliminations, a Dutch demolition, no shortage of fan trouble and a Parisian river cruise, Three Lions fans have seen it all at the Euros… aside from that elusive victory, that is. Here, Mail Sport's men on the ground relive the good, the bad and the ugly from each of England's Euro expeditions…

THIS feels like the catastrophic bottle job of Euro 2020 all over again. A coach and players freezing like rabbits in the headlights, world-class opponents being left to stroll around and do what they like, unfathomable tactics, Billy Gilmour being left on the bench, a big problem at right wing-back and an entire set-up sliding into panic mode and resorting to brainless hoofball from the off.

IT'S sobering, sometimes, to see yourself as others see you. Julian Nagelsmann used to view Scotland teams as long-ball merchants who fought like lions for the knockdowns by any means necessary. Just the other day, former German international Robert Huth predicted a 'mega-defensive' display from Steve Clarke's side in tonight's opening game of Euro 2024. If that's what he thinks, he clearly hasn't watched them play. It's Nagelsmann's job to study his opponents in detail, and the wunderkind of German coaching spoke last night of the cultural progression initiated under Clarke. He spoke of how good the Scots are in the final third, how much stress they create for opponents with the ball at their feet. He praised their pressing, and the counter attacking of players like Billy Gilmour, John McGinn and Scott McTominay

Fifty years ago this Friday evening, on June 14, 1974, Scotland played their first game in a major international tournament on German soil and won. That's a bigger deal than it sounds. Wind the calendar back to their first-ever World Cup finals defeat to Austria and the national team have consistently fluffed their lines on opening night. They've played in eight World Cups and reached the European Championships three times previously. That's 11 tournaments in total and they've only won their first game twice. The first was against mighty Zaire, the second against New Zealand.