Big Mikey Moore, Rangers FC news may be music to one West Brom player's ears | OneFootball

The news that Mikey Moore is more likely to go to Rangers than West Brom may be bad news for Albion, but it may be good news for one of their players.

It now seems as though West Bromwich Albion may not be getting the Spurs starlet Mikey Moore on loan this season, and this may be good news for one of their young players.

As West Bromwich Albion continue their preparations for the new season, it had been anticipated that the mercurial young Spurs winger Mikey Moore could be on his way to The Hawthorns, although there was also reportedly interest from Birmingham City. Moore has been left out of the Spurs squad that is travelling to the Far East, which may be interpreted as him not being in the new Spurs head coach Thomas Frank's plans for the new season.

But reporting from the Telegraph's Matt Law has indicated that, despite Moore's connections to the new West Brom head coach Ryan Mason, The Hawthorns is now less than likely to be his destination for the new season, with it now being suggested that he's more likely to head for the Scottish giants Rangers.

An Ibrox move for Mikey Moore would be good news for West Brom's Mikey Johnston

None of this is good news for West Bromwich Albion. Moore is a huge young talent, of which great things are hoped. But while the fact that his unavailability may be bad news for the club, it is considerably better news for one of their players who has already been linked to a move away from the club this summer.

Mikey Johnston joined West Brom on a permanent deal in the summer of 2024 from Celtic after impressing during a half-season loan spell with the club. He was a regular in the West Bromwich Albion team throughout the 2024-25 season and might have been expecting to hold down that left-sided position within the team again next time around on a week-in-week-out basis.

Mikey Johnston was involved in one of the stranger stories of this summer's transfer window

Mikey Johnston was involved in one of the stranger stories so far of this summer's transfer window when he was linked to a £5 million move to join the Brazilian giants Flamengo.

It had been reported in the Brazilian press that Johnston had failed a medical, and that this was the reason for the transfer not happening, but these reports were untrue. The Express & Star reported that Johnston hadn't even flown to Brazil at the time of the reports.

In this case, though, truth almost turned out to be stranger than fiction. The Irish Mirror reported that Flamengo got cold feet over the transfer following a backlash against the transfer which led to the former Ireland international Robbie Keane making "an unexpected appearance on Brazilian sports television to sing Johnston's praises."

It now seems more likely than not that Johnston will be staying at The Hawthorns this season and, at 26 years of age, he would not have wanted to spend the 2025-26 season warming the bench for West Brom while having to compete for a place in Albion's first eleven with Mikey Moore. Such a talented young player heading elsewhere might not be good news for West Bromwich Albion, but it may well turn out to be very good news indeed for this particular player.