Noble: “It’ll take a while to learn Slav’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. “