Mark Noble has revealed that as Slaven Bilic drove from the training ground for the last time he told the squad there “were no hard feelings.”
And he added: “These days, it can be quite a ruthless game for a manager if they don’t get results. For the last five years, football has become a real business and if you don’t win, you pay the consequences.”
Noble has explained however that under new boss David Moyes the intensity has gone up straightaway and that is due in part to the arrival on the training pitch of youth players.
He told the official site: “We’ve had a lot of boys away on international duty this past week or two, but most of them were back on Thursday and now we’ve got our minds focused totally on Watford on Sunday.
The manager has shared his ideas with us about how he wants us to play, but I don’t think that’s something I should really be sharing with everybody!
We’ve had Terry Westley’s Under-23s over training with us this past fortnight to make up the numbers and, to be honest, that’s been great for us.
They’ve been flying around the training pitch, wanting to impress the new manager, which has upped the tempo in training as they are young, fit and eager to show they are ready.
It’s also great for the manager because it gives him the opportunity to see what’s coming through the ranks here at the Club.”
Noble added: “I am hoping the new manager situation can have a big impact and we can go to Vicarage Road and get a result.
We need to win games at this point and if we can get back-to-back wins, we can start to move up the table.
What would help would be if Noble called it a day and retired upstairs gracefully . All the impetus of the new spirit will be lost if he plays . Too slow , no leadership by example and just plain awful .
We will find out at the weekend Bubbles, I suspect your pain will be increased, the one thing in your favour is if he doesn’t produce on the pitch for Moyes, Moyes can’t afford for him to be a weak link, he needs results so I am hopeful that the best team will be played but then I have hoped that previously so will wait and see.
Too right, poor old Mark Noble has been hanging on by his finger-tips for quite a while now, trading on the ‘Local boy’, ‘West Ham through and through’ stuff.
You’d expect Moyes to be a pragmatist and if he’s not doing the business Noble will be on his bike
He relies on all his good talk to see him through
Well its Christmas soon so
Oi!! Santa clause you c### , where’s nobles bike ,
He’s benn playing games without a clue ,
And there’s nothing there I like !
So do us all a favour in joyouse joy and the like !
Put us out of our misery ,
And get the c### a bike !! 😂😂
Lazu …you are a super star . A taxi would be better cos it goes faster and further but not much rhymes with it !!
💨💨💨💨💯🚕 for noble 😎