David Moyes delighted to have ‘incredible’ Mark Noble help at West Ham
Mark Noble might not have played too many times for West Ham this season but he is having just as big an impact as he always has off the pitch.
The 34-year-old will hang up his boots at the end of this season having been playing for the Irons since 2005 even when the club suffered relegation to the Championship.
Only he knows what his next role might be but Hammers boss David Moyes will want him to stick around the club in the coaching staff.
The Scot went on Jake Humphrey’s High Performance Podcast and revelled in the work that Noble had put in behind the scenes with Declan Rice and the other academy players.
“At our club at the moment, Mark Noble is an incredible leader,” Moyes said. “If you look at the periods that West Ham have been through with all sorts of things going on, Mark has been the one who has stood fast.
“He made sure things still went on and he is still that today. He works really hard for the team but he is great for me behind the scenes in training up Declan Rice and letting other young players see how it is.
“He watches the academy games and sees a lot of the Under-23s and being in their ears saying ‘No, you’re not going to be in the first-team if you behave that way’ and it’s great t0 have people like that around me.”
Won’t be another
A player and person like Mark Noble won’t come along again in football no matter what West Ham tries to do to recreate his magic.
His pure, unbridled love of the club is something you never see with players coming through the ranks nowadays with money often the reason these future stars go elsewhere.
No longer would a player stay at their boyhood club if a much better financial offer was received from another club.
That’s why West Ham should be trying as hard as they possibly can to keep Noble in the club after he retires in May because he can instil his own beliefs and methods into the next best things coming from the ‘Academy of Football’.
He will unquestionably get a massive sendoff in his final game for the club at the end of this season and when the full-time whistle blows on that day, we will know that there will never be another Mark Noble.
In other West Ham news, an Ex-FIFA official has urged Moyes to consider appealing a decision that went against the Irons this week.
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