Why West Brom's James Morrison was keen to reward Tammer Bany on attacker's return

Attacking midfielder Bany has returned to availability having been sidelined for around four months following surgery on his thigh.

The 22-year-old is yet to start a game for Albion almost 15 months on from a £3.3million transfer from Randers in Denmark.

He has enjoyed substitute cameos against Watford and Ipswich in the last 10 days as Morrison’s side rubber-stamped Championship safety.

“It was a risk to put him into the squad a bit earlier than I had expected but he was training really well,” Morrison said.

“He is someone who is really keen to impress.

“Preston are a man-marking team, and he’s someone who can wriggle out of one-v-one situations, I thought he’d be perfect for it.

“I think he had the longest warm-up I’d seen in football - he was desperate to get on!

“But I put him on against Watford for a reward for how he’s been in training and the energy he’s brought back into the squad.”

Bany has appeared seven times as a substitute since he checked in from his birth nation.

He was unable to build on four cameos towards the end of last season after breaking down with an injury during pre-season.

Bany was used just once by Ryan Mason, as a late substitute, in the first half of the season.

The attacker was used as an example to the failed recruitment of former sporting director Andrew Nestor, who exited in January.

Copenhagen-born Bany confirmed his international allegiance to Middle Eastern nation Jordan this season.

He won his first cap in the autumn and could be Albion’s sole representative at this summer’s World Cup. Jordan are one of several more fringe football nations to qualify to the expanded showpiece tournament.

“He trains really well, comes in every day wanting to improved,” Morrison added. “I think he’s enjoying it.”