Napoli are set to finalise the transfer of Billy Gilmour from Brighton in the coming days. The midfielder will travel to Italy for his medical soon, and is expected to officially sign for the former Scudetto winners next week.
The two clubs have reached an agreement over a fee worth €17-18 million including add-ons. Negotiations took place for weeks, but things are finally in place for the move to go through.
Billy Gilmour to join Napoli from Brighton
🚨🔵 Napoli reach verbal agreement with Brighton for Billy Gilmour! Final details to be sorted and then done.
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) August 22, 2024
Package around €17/18m, add-ons included.
Understand Napoli have started plans for Billy to travel and do medical tests early next week. 🛩️🇮🇹
Here we go, soon. ⏳ pic.twitter.com/aihsEeuMhz
The midfielder joined the Seagulls from Chelsea in 2022, and has since made 59 appearances for them. He played close to 3,000 minutes across all competitions this past season, but will be moving on now.
He has made 30 appearances for Scotland, and has shown his technical ability time and time again. However, it’ll be interesting to see if he fits into the kind of system Antonio Conte is thing to deploy at Napoli.
The Scotland international will be the second player to sign for the Neapolitan side in as many weeks after David Neres from Benfica. It now remains to be seen whether they can sign Chelsea striker Romelu Lukaku to reunite him with Conte.
Have Napoli signed Lukaku?
No, they are in talks to sign him.