'I feel sorry for Bany after rotten first year'

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First and foremost, I feel sorry for Tammer Bany. He's a polite and pleasant lad and this has been a rotten first year in English football for him.

I spoke to him during the club's pre-season training camp in Austria where he was looking forward to finally making an impression after struggling with minor injuries in his debut campaign in English football.

He'd made just four substitute appearances under previous boss, Tony Mowbray after arriving for a reported fee of around £3m from Danish side FC Randers in the January transfer window.

In that interview, Bany spoke about his quick rise through the Danish league system. It wasn't long ago that the 22-year-old was playing at a level the player himself likened to League Two in our pyramid system.

Not long after we spoke, he picked up another injury that kept him out until November.

Since then, he's appeared on the bench eight times, and played a single minute in in an away defeat for QPR, where the PA announcer was perhaps as surprised as everyone else at his cameo appearance because he was announced as fellow midfielder, Ousmane Diakite.

Despite head coach Ryan Mason explaining his absence on multiple occasions in interviews and revealing just last week that the young midfielder is even struggling with the rigours of training, frustration has grown amongst supporters over his lack minutes, particularly after he made his international debut for Jordan in November.

He played 70 minutes in a goalless draw with Mali, while in 11 months for the Baggies, he's not started a single game and played a combined 51 minutes off the bench.

Perhaps it was down to the anticipation of seeing him play after sporting director Andrew Nestor cited "significant interest" from across the Europe in the midfielder, who he called "one of the most effective attacking midfielders in Denmark", when they announced his signing on a three-and-a-half-year deal at the start of 2025.

A fair chunk of money was spent based on that data and his potential to grow, but at the moment it's looking like a poor use of limited funds by the club, who've already revealed they don't have money to spend in next month's transfer window on a full-time replacement.

It leaves Mason's already stretched midfield department now even thinner, with another injured midfielder, Toby Collyer expected to be recalled from his loan by parent club Manchester United in the next few days.

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