Mikey Moore’s loan at Koln looks set to end the way Tottenham always planned, with the winger returning to North London. Sky Germany’s Florian Plettenberg reports that Koln see no chance of signing the 19-year-old permanently, which fits a deal agreed for the full season with no option to buy. Plettenberg’s numbers have Moore on 497 Bundesliga minutes with no goals and one assist.

Not every outlet agrees on the assist. Moore came on at half-time on his debut, a 4-1 defeat at Stuttgart, and helped create Köln’s only goal, but it was officially recorded as a Stuttgart own goal. Express says he has not been involved in a Köln goal since.

How the Mikey Moore loan got here

Koln spent most of August chasing Mikey Moore, and Spurs held up final approval while Roberto De Zerbi weighed up keeping him. The loan was completed on August 31 and runs to the end of the 2026-27 season. Since then Moore has been in and out of René Wagner’s side. He was on the bench against Eintracht Frankfurt and Union Berlin, started the 5-0 DFB-Pokal win over Union and played 72 minutes, then started again in Sunday’s 2-1 home defeat to Leverkusen.

Wagner has said Moore needs the one moment where things start to flow, and has pointed to his positioning as the area to improve. Köln are 15th on nine points after Sunday’s loss, their first at home in the league this season.

Moore scored seven league goals in 33 appearances for Rangers on loan last season.