Millwall FC should rival West Brom for exciting Spurs transfer agreement | OneFootball

The Tottenham youngster has excelled in League One this season

No matter the outcome of the League One play-offs, there is LITTLE doubt that Jamie Donley will be playing in the Championship next season.

The Tottenham loanee has excelled in his first season away from his parent club, scoring eight and topping the League One assist charts with 10, as he helped Leyton Orient finish inside the top six.

Talk about a second loan move, this time to the second tier, has already begun for the 20-year-old, with Birmingham World reporting that West Bromwich Albion have lodged an enquiry to try and snag the exciting attacking midfielder's services for the coming season.

However, despite being the first, the Baggies will almost certainly not be the last Championship side to show interest this coming summer and, if Tottenham end up with a choice to make, perhaps a London-based Championship club would pique their interest over a West Brom side who haven't had the best recent track record of taking in Spurs' youngsters.

Jamie Donley would be a great fit for Millwall amid West Brom interest

Millwall ended the Championship season just two points off the play-offs. Whilst their defence proved strong throughout the campaign, a tally of 47 league goals was worse than that of just three other teams in the entire league.

Therefore, a bright, exciting attacking midfielder like Jamie Donley, who picked up 18 goal contributions in League One this season, may be what the Lions need to get them over the line and into the second-tier play-offs for the first time since 2002.

The location would make sense too, as it would allow Donley to stay in London once again.

With Josh Coburn set to return to Middlesbrough at the end of the season, perhaps it would allow Alex Neil to utilise 12-goal Serbian Mihailo Ivanovic as an out-and-out striker, with Donley behind him.

Tottenham may be hesitant to loan Jamie Donley to West Brom due to Will Lankshear treatment

If West Brom do secure Jamie Donley for the 2025/26 season, it won't be the first time that the Baggies have been trusted with the development of a future star coming out of Tottenham, after Will Lankshear spent the latter half of the 2024/25 campaign at the Hawthorns.

However, Lankshear's arrival on the same day that Adam Armstrong also arrived on loan meant that it was tough for the 20-year-old to get regular game time in a team that already had Karlan Grant and a returning Daryl Dike in their ranks.

The England Under-20 international arrived with plenty of promise, having scored in the Europa League already for Tottenham this season, but had more games where he failed to get off the bench than he did starts at West Brom, scoring no goals in that time either.

West Brom do clearly hold more attacking talent on paper than a side such as Millwall does, with a plethora of strikers alongside the likes of Tom Fellows and Alex Mowatt, who provide their fair share of goals and assists too.

There's a danger of the 20-year-old attacking midfielder becoming just a name at West Brom, whereas at Millwall, Donley will likely be one of the focal points of the attack. It'd be a big step-up, but one that Tottenham will be sure he can take if the Lions go in for him.