Having been unveiled on Monday morning, Jack Wilshere wants to hit the ground running as he gets to know his squad and prepares them for Saturday’s game with Mansfield at Kenilworth Road.

The newly-appointed Town boss is hoping to instil confidence in a group that has lost three of their last five games in League One but one which lies just five points off the play-offs in the third tier.

“I've spent the last week looking intensely at everything, but I think probably you can only get 80 per cent of that done without actually going speaking to the players, feeling the environment and feeling the group,” said Wilshere.

“However, I think we've got a lot of quality. I think we've got enough quality to get out of this league and I think we've got enough quality to compete in the Championship next year.

“There's obviously some things that we have to get right really early and get the energy, get the belief, get the unity back and really try and, especially when we're at home at Kenilworth Road, use that, use the energy of this amazing old stadium that has so much tradition, so much history.

“And the beautiful thing as well about the squad is you have players who have been on that journey and they really know what that is and it's important for me that I can tap into that and understand what that is.”

Wilshere met his squad at The Brache after finishing his media commitments and the manager is itching to get on the grass this week to begin to instil his methodology and principles.

“There's an international break still, so I'll meet some of the players today and on Thursday, when everyone's back, we'll get to work and we'll get prepared for Mansfield.

“A big part of what I want is for players to enjoy everything. I want them to enjoy training. Whenever I've been coached by someone, it was the enjoyment that I felt that mattered most and that naturally creates a competitive environment – and that's what we need to do from the start.

“That’s because we need to make sure that when Saturday comes and when every week comes there's no button pressed on Saturday morning, it's in the week, it's in our behaviours and we can compete from the start.”

Having made a name for himself as one of the Premier League’s most creative central midfield players of his generation – playing under some of the greatest managers ever – the question is: what style of play will he look to introduce at Kenilworth Road?

“Naturally, everyone probably thinks that I like playing with the ball, and I do. I was a player who liked playing with the ball,” he said.

“But before any of that – and it's an old saying in football, and I loved that my coaches used to say it – we have to earn the right to play first.

“We have to compete, we have to win duels, we have to fight, we have to show that togetherness, we have to make sure the fans look at us and know that we are giving that absolutely everything, which we will be.

“And once we build out, we build a belief and we build confidence, we'll try and create something where we have a little bit more control in possession, be a little bit more aggressive on the front foot, especially at home.

“However, there's work to be done before we get there.”