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Bannan scores unconventional overhead kick in training

 

One man who looks especially sharp is Crystal Palace midfielder Barry Bannan, who shows off his powers of improvisation during the drill.

 

 

http://sport.stv.tv/football/international/238944-barry-bannan-scores-an-unconventional-free-kick-during-scotland-training/

 

 

Boss talks up Bannan potential

 

Crystal Palace boss Ian Holloway has hailed deadline-day signing Barry Bannan and says his style of play is suited to Barcelona.

 

 

"The passes he's got, I think we've got the squad around him to get that balance across the midfield that we can defend, and he can be as good as he wants to be. I've just got to make sure he wants to be as good as I think he can be.

 

 

For #1, whoopty-****-doo, pretty much all professional footballers can do an overhead kick in training. Plus, that first touch is shot.

 

and #2, Bannan had potential, 5 years ago. It's been pretty much pissed away, be it through not being played, or generally playing shit. His style of football would suit Barcelona, but so would mine. When I play, I play short simple passes, passing is one of my strong poitns and I'm not the most physically imposing player, doesn't mean I'm good, and it doesn't for Bannan either. Any Swansea player suits Barca's style, doesn't mean Leon Britton's any good. Holloway is just trying to talk up his new signing as it's not a particularly inspiring one, one I imagine Palace fans aren't particularly over the moon about, especially when considering fellow new boys Cardiff spent £30m on players.

 

Bannan will never be anymore than a relegation fodder midfielder.

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Bannan scores unconventional overhead kick in training

 

One man who looks especially sharp is Crystal Palace midfielder Barry Bannan, who shows off his powers of improvisation during the drill.

 

 

http://sport.stv.tv/football/international/238944-barry-bannan-scores-an-unconventional-free-kick-during-scotland-training/

 

 

Boss talks up Bannan potential

 

Crystal Palace boss Ian Holloway has hailed deadline-day signing Barry Bannan and says his style of play is suited to Barcelona.

 

 

"The passes he's got, I think we've got the squad around him to get that balance across the midfield that we can defend, and he can be as good as he wants to be. I've just got to make sure he wants to be as good as I think he can be.

 

That video kinda shows everything that has been wrong with Bannan for the last couple of years. He can't keep things simple, always going for the Hollywood style.

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Those long passes were McLeish's strategy, not Bannan's playing style. Bannan showed at Villa he has a total range of passing. Short and low (vs Liverpool), driven low (vs Ipswich), long pass (vs Fulham). He can also loft a chip through, and he ended up the best crosser in the PL last year.

 

BARRY Bannan is looking to the future with real optimism for club and country after continuing a dramatic turnaround in his personal fortunes by helping Scotland to a 2-1 victory over Macedonia.

 

Bannan set up Ikechi Anya’s opening goal as Scotland moved off the bottom of their World Cup qualifying group and above their hosts and Wales.

Gordon Strachan handed the midfielder a start on the right-hand side despite him only making one appearance in the previous five months, which came in Scotland’s 1-0 victory in Croatia in June.

The 23-year-old had been frozen out at Aston Villa and told he would not play for the club again but he secured a move to Crystal Palace hours before the transfer deadline last week.

Bannan did not have time to meet his new team-mates before flying north following his late call-up to the Scotland squad and he will report for training for Ian Holloway’s side on a high following his performance and the result in Skopje.

The Airdrie-born midfielder, who made 83 appearances for Villa, said: “Things are looking up. Obviously the last couple of months have been a bit down for me but I’m sure I will come out the other end stronger for it.

“After the win I’m buzzing and I’m on a high going to a new club. Hopefully I can get settled in and start playing and getting games under my belt.

“Things are looking good at the minute.”

Bannan’s enthusiasm for his new career at Selhurst Park is matched by his feeling for Scotland’s future fortunes. The win in Macedonia, which came courtesy of Shaun Maloney’s 89th-minute free-kick, was only Scotland’s second of their Group A campaign but they have come in consecutive away games and the way Strachan’s men passed the ball and took the game to their hosts on a poor surface was further cause for optimism.

Bannan said: “It was a disappointment the other night losing to Belgium so we tried to come over to Macedonia and get three points and we have done that so everyone is buzzing.

“We thought we could have got something from Belgium but you can’t take it away from Belgium, they are going to be a strong, strong team in the tournament when it comes around.

“There wasn’t any shame in losing to them the other night. And we have come over against another strong team who are good at home and we have turned them over.

“So I think you can see big signs of improvement under this gaffer and hopefully it’s a sign of things to come.”

Bannan was grateful to Strachan for giving him his 13th cap despite his lack of first-team football this season.

Bannan was not even training with the first team at Villa Park as Paul Lambert continues to re-shape his squad so he did not expect to be involved at international level.

But he justified his inclusion with a solid display capped off with a driven pass to set up Anya on the hour mark.

“It was going to be tough for me,” Bannan said. “I had not kicked a ball since the Croatia game because of circumstances at Villa, so I was just happy to be back out on the pitch playing again.

“I can’t thank him (Strachan) enough. I said before I was lucky to be in the squad for this one because I had not kicked a ball all pre-season, so a lot of managers would look at that and say: ‘He’s not ready, he has got to play before he gets called up.’

“But this gaffer has shown great faith in me and hopefully I have repaid that.

“The ball set up nice for me to play through to Ikechi and he took it brilliantly so it was a great night for me.”

 

http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/latest/barry-bannan-looking-forward-to-brighter-future-1-3087476

 

 

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BARRY BANNAN’S new boss reckons he could star for Barcelona.

Then again, Ian Holloway took Blackpool to the Premiership on a diet of bacon rolls and a walk on the Promenade, so he’s always been a little bit quirky.

Holloway had Bannan on loan at the Seasiders and after moving to Crystal Palace rescued him from Aston Villa, where the little midfielder had been frozen out to such an extent he feared for his international future.

He needn’t have worried. Gordon Strachan is as big a fan as Holloway is and despite not kicking a ball since playing for Scotland against Croatia in June, Bannan was pitched in against Macedonia on Tuesday night and played a blinder in the 2-1 victory.

 

 

 
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BARRY BANNAN’S new boss reckons he could star for Barcelona.

Then again, Ian Holloway took Blackpool to the Premiership on a diet of bacon rolls and a walk on the Promenade, so he’s always been a little bit quirky.

Holloway had Bannan on loan at the Seasiders and after moving to Crystal Palace rescued him from Aston Villa, where the little midfielder had been frozen out to such an extent he feared for his international future.

He needn’t have worried. Gordon Strachan is as big a fan as Holloway is and despite not kicking a ball since playing for Scotland against Croatia in June, Bannan was pitched in against Macedonia on Tuesday night and played a blinder in the 2-1 victory.

 

 

 

 

 

Holloway also reckons Charlie Adam's corners are worth £10m.

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BARRY BANNAN’S new boss reckons he could star for Barcelona.

Then again, Ian Holloway took Blackpool to the Premiership on a diet of bacon rolls and a walk on the Promenade, so he’s always been a little bit quirky.

Holloway had Bannan on loan at the Seasiders and after moving to Crystal Palace rescued him from Aston Villa, where the little midfielder had been frozen out to such an extent he feared for his international future.

He needn’t have worried. Gordon Strachan is as big a fan as Holloway is and despite not kicking a ball since playing for Scotland against Croatia in June, Bannan was pitched in against Macedonia on Tuesday night and played a blinder in the 2-1 victory.

 

 

 

 

 

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Remember I am 1/4 Scottish so part of me wants him to do well for the Scottish national team.

 

Another part of me cannot wait to be proved right. 

 

That Scotland performance went some way to answering his critics. Great assist. Now needs to do it in the PL week-in-week out.

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Remember I am 1/4 Scottish so part of me wants him to do well for the Scottish national team.

 

Another part of me cannot wait to be proved right. 

 

That Scotland performance went some way to answering his critics. Great assist. Now needs to do it in the PL week-in-week out.

 

 

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