"The guy's obsessed" - Ben Gibson makes Narcis Pelach revelation at Stoke City | OneFootball

The Spaniard was appointed as Potters boss last week after Steven Schumacher was sacked

Stoke City captain Ben Gibson knows there is going to be no stone left unturned under 'obsessed' new Potters boss Narcis Pelach.

The Spaniard was the man trusted to take over the reins at the bet365 Stadium last week, as City parted company with Steven Schumacher after just nine months in charge.

The 36-year-old made the move to Staffordshire from Norwich City, where he had been for the past 12 months after previously working under Carlos Corberan at Huddersfield Town.

And with that fresh impetus in the dressing room, Gibson knows the whole squad are going to have to put in the hard yards in the coming weeks as their new boss looks to shake things up in his new surroundings.

Ben Gibson outlines Narcis Pelach expectations

After overseeing a 3-1 defeat to Hull City last weekend in what was his first match in charge of the Potters, Gibson knows Pelach will be doing everything in his power to see results turn around before too long.

Despite that defeat to Tim Walter’s Tigers side, the defender is confident his new manager can get the best out of the players at his disposal, with his work ethic already rubbing off on those at the club.

Gibson said, via the Stoke Sentinel: “We’re going to have to work really hard. I know him and what he demands. No one will work harder than him, believe me. The guy’s obsessed, he’s a machine, and we’ll benefit from that.

“Obviously we’re doing different things, we’re being asked to do different things than this football club has done for a long time.

“We had the craziest week, loads of information to take on board and it’s going to be so different to how it has been for a long time. It’s going to be a rollercoaster, there will be peaks, there will be troughs, we have to be patient.

“I saw a lot of good things and a lot of things we can work on. In the first half we were really good, we made the opportunity to get a second, which we didn’t take, and then a couple of mistakes cost us in the second half.

“I think we ran out of juice, which cost us a bit. The emotions of the week, we’ve got a young team, which will have never been given this volume of information in such a short period, I think that showed.

Ben Gibson pleads for patience as Narcis Pelach Stoke City reign begins

The Hull defeat is early proof that things aren’t going to change overnight in the Potteries, with Pelach likely to need some time to get his philosophy over to the players, in what is his first role as head coach in English football.

While there were signs of a new style of football being implemented, Gibson knows that his side will need time to take onboard their new instructions, and has warned the fanbase of expecting too much too soon.

He continued: “I think some of the football we played, cutting through lines, building up from the back.

“I know that requires a lot of patience and some people wonder what the benefits of that are but I think we drew them onto us and got the ball to our creative players in bigger areas of space, which is going to allow them to do more damage.

“This is a project that’s going to have ups, it’ll have downs, we’ll have to be patient. Of course you need short-term success, as with everything, and I’m sure that will come. We’ll address it, analyse it and we’ll improve.”