“I think if you ask the players, they’d tell you that they’ve loved this last week,” he said. “It’s probably been a bit of a culture shock and I know it’s easier for me because it’s more the norm that I’ve been used to but I’ve tried to reassure them that it will become the norm here too and they will get used to it.

It’s just very, very different, the European way, a different week with fewer days off, more hours on the training pitch, loads of meetings – meetings on meetings, meetings about meetings, so different – but I think the lads have been really receptive.

“In the first 30 minutes against Hull last Friday we showed something. To change so drastically in two days essentially, we can take positives. There is still obviously loads to improve and there always will be but I’m really confident that we’ve got the group to do it and we just have to ride out the periods when it maybe hasn’t worked as well and maximise our chances that our new shape and structure can give us.”

Gibson, aged 31, has been the go-to man for players, media and anyone else to ask about Pelach due to their time together at Carrow Road. What can everyone expect?

“It’s a question that a lot of people want to know,” he said. “It’s his first crack of being a manager in this country and he’s exciting, he’s intense, he’s demanding, he’s a good man, a very humble guy and very hard working. We’ll represent him, he’ll demand that from us.

We’ve already had loads of information, so much. It’s been made clear to us what is expected right across the board, on the pitch and off the pitch, we’ll have a clear structure in how we play.”

He added: “I loved (working with him at Norwich). He worked a lot with the defenders hand in hand so we spent a lot of time together. We really benefited from that to be honest as a back four, as a unit, individually.

He did a lot of one-on-one analysis, looking at what you’ve done well, what you can do better, looking at bigger and better players in the same position.

He’s super detailed and I’ve never come across anyone in football who works harder. He’s non-stop. He’ll be here until the early hours of the morning.

He’s obsessed by football, obsessed with the details, improving players, improving units, improving teams. That can only give us a better chance of getting results.”

The excitement at a new chapter doesn’t quite overshadow a responsibility for the end of an old one and the exit of Schumacher, who had signed Gibson early in the summer.

Gibson said: “It’s never nice and as players you have to take ownership of that. I’d only experienced the old manager for a short period of time but as a player and as his captain you have to look at yourself and ultimately we hadn’t done a good enough job on the pitch.

“But now we’ve made the decision to go in this direction I’m really excited to work with him. I know what he’ll bring. I could see when I worked with him before that he was always going to be a head coach or manager, there was always a natural progression. It wasn’t a matter of if, it was just a case of when. I’m delighted he’s here.

“With the young squad we have he’ll improve players, he’ll improve the team. The results will hopefully come quickly, hopefully they’ll come straightaway.

There’s obviously going to be a huge emphasis on the different style of play and the club is going in a direction it hasn’t in the past but, whether we like it or not, the facts are that as a club we haven’t got the results or finished in the positions that its wanted to. I couldn’t be more convinced he’ll be the manager to turn that fortune around.”

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