It'll have been a whirlwind fortnight for Tammer Bany, but one of West Bromwich Albion's newest additions is soon ready to try and hit the ground running in his new surroundings. Playmaker Bany arrived towards the end of the January transfer window from Danish side Randers for a substantial fee and he has spent the last week getting himself up to speed.
Bany was unveiled to the Albion supporters ahead of the victory over Sheffield Wednesday at The Hawthorns last Saturday and, while there is no time pressure to integrate him into the first-team squad, Tony Mowbray has a positive first impression of the 21-year-old, who he says 'wants the coach to shout at him' in order to demand more.
There is room for some more unpredictable creativity and potency in Albion's squad right now; against Blackburn on Wednesday, they were without the injured Daryl Dike and Josh Maja, as well as the ill Karlan Grant, meaning their forward options were a little stretched. Bany's arrival marks a venture into the largely unknown but Mowbray has high hopes he'll adapt to English football.
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"He's like a number ten, he wants to have the ball," Mowbray said. "For not a big fella he doesn't mind body contact, he actually likes body contact. He can dribble from foot to foot.
"I think the supporters will like what he brings and the energy he brings. I've been speaking with him about the discipline - he's not going to be playing for Randers where he could go wherever he wanted with the ball, make one-twos and run and play.
"He has to play in the shape of the team, so if he's a similar to a Grady [Diangana] type footballer, Grady would play on the right, he on the left, and you have to play in the part of the pitch where you play.
"I don't want to see you out on the right if you're playing on the left and then on the edge of our box. He understands that. He's good, he wants the coach to shout at him and demand.
"He knows at some stages he wants to go and get the ball. You'd say to him, well, you might not have to go and get the ball to Grady Diangana, because he can deal with it perfectly and, actually, he might give you a pass where you can run through and score.
"We'll talk to him all about that and what his job is, but hopefully he has players at this club he respects are just as talented. Hopefully we can fit him into the system."
