Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain Quotes

It's difficult to play in a new formation and have everyone grasp it straight away.

It is a challenge to work with a newcomer.

It's not easy when you have a new manager because you have to try and adapt yourself to him, the team, training sessions, and the game.

It's hard to learn a new guy each time out there.

I know it will take a little time to adapt to a different team and a different league.

Maybe sometimes it can take a player a bit longer to get comfortable and to get to know everyone and exactly what he needs to do.

Every player needs time to settle in and to get used to a new club, from knowing the league to the other players - everything.

I needed a little time to settle, to know the Premier League, the people here, how they are, and to know the players. I had to find my confidence.

Of course, in the beginning it's always difficult. It's a new country, new teammates, so you need to find the relationship with all the players. Obviously it takes time.

You need a little time, the usual sort of time it takes to get to know your team-mates and the league itself, but it's all good, generally. I'm very happy.

The second season is always easier than the first one. When you change, it's always more difficult. You have to adapt to the way your team plays; you have to adapt to your team-mates, to the league, to the referees.

When you come in with the national team, there's an adjustment period. Sometimes you don't have time to adjust.

Every player settles into a new league in different ways.

There's always a transition if you go to a new territory or a new company or a new country or wherever because there's different styles and different crowds that you perform in front of. Of course, it always takes a little bit of time to find your groove.

Especially a new role, it takes a long time for me to settle into a role but it's exciting as well.

When I was in the second unit, it just took me time to find my rhythm just playing with a lot of new guys. But once I got in the starting lineup, it kind of just opened up a little bit.

My process to adapt to English football has been very good.

The more you play against teams and defenders, the more you get to know them. You know if they are more nervous; you know, on the pitch, people are different. I try to adapt to their character.

I think every new player needs time when they come to a new club and a new country, and I certainly did.

It doesn't always click for a new player in a new team: you don't always go in and hit the ground running and score all the time.

Low and I needed some time to get used to each other.

It's hard for a shortstop to play with a guy you don't know in the middle of the season. If you know a guy early in spring training, you're working with them.

That is what it is like with Pep. At first, you don't understand. But then you grow up, you work, and now we understand the things he wants much better. It's not like the first season when it took him more time to make us understand his ideas. Some players didn't understand immediately what he wanted.

Any rookie is going to go through a transition process that's going to be tough.

It'll be a challenge for me to come in and fit with a team that's already good.