Mark Noble believes the squad will need a couple of months to understand Slaven Bilic’s ways.
Noble – in an excellent exclusive interview with London24 – said: ““I might have a little bit of a different role to play, it depends on how the manager plays as he has two or three different ways he likes to play. But wherever he asks me to go, I am happy with that.”
Noble has admitted in the past it’s not been an ideal building and adds: It is definitely the strangest pre-season I have had – a million per cent!” said the 28-year-old midfielder.
“Normally you have all your pre-season away from home until the week before the season and the fans get really excited, but things have not gone that way.
“We have gone through the Europa with the squad not being together for the first two weeks, with the manager not being able to play his best team.”
But he appears to back the manager placing the emphasis on the Premier League declaring: “So long as the boys ready to go for Sunday, that is the key.”
Discussing some indifferent results he explained: “I used to get so wound up when I was 20 or 2 and think we are not ready’, but you are, you know?
“Last summer we went to New Zealand and got battered by an Australian and a New Zealand team, but look at the way we started the season.
“To be honest, the results don’t really matter as long as you stay fit and keep the morale high.”
“The new boys are still learning. The Premier League is a completely different kettle of fish to anything they’ve experienced and Arsenal is going to be a tough one to go into first up.”
“They are important games, but Leicester are going to be buzzing with a new manager and staying up last season, Bournemouth are a decent side, I watched them a lot last season and they are also going to be buzzing playing in the top flight. We have to match their energy and show our quality.”
Noble is likely to be playing with French new boy Dimitri Payet and he is pleased with that. “If he keeps creating goals then why not give him the ball? We have been crying out for a player like that, a creative player for a long time. “
Here’s a pointer for you Mark, Slaven Bilic’s way is to pass the ball to one of your team mates. If they takes you a couple of months to work out maybe you should have a little rest on the bench and watch the others doing it first.
Here we go the new excuse before we start,Arsenal have quite a few of their best players missing we have a whole first team rested for the game,
We drew last year and now have a better team,
But Slav playes different the pitch is round the goal post are smaller the balls square,
Agree with Vintage maybe you won’t get in to the team anyway,so you can watch a real midfielder like Payet or Kouyate, oh sorry they don’t walk through walls that your specialty not passing our tackling
For christ sake bubs,have you only come on here to grumble today.I have not seen a single article without your misery spread all over it,lmao.If you carry on like this Wetpants are going to put in a transfer offer in for you 😀
What do you call misery the truth,
Noble has spent the last 2 weeks coming up with excuse,s,
Just don’t like bull ship
If we are not go to buy players no problem just tell the truth,
Hate being lied to Mate had it for the last 4 years,
But quite happy mate having a beer by my pool getting a tan how you doing