Mark Noble reckons West Ham United's current squad is the best the club has had in the thirteen years he has been with the first team.

The Hammers have failed to get going so far this season after adding prized signings Javier Hernandez, Marko Arnautovic, Pablo Zabaleta and Joe Hart in the summer.

But the club captain believes the injection of talent has only been a positive for Slaven Bilic,

"Whether I am involved from the start or not [on Friday], I will prepare the same way and give the same input in the dressing room and on the pitch, either way," he said.

"I have played regularly for this Club for over a decade now, but we now have a bigger and stronger squad than ever and that means the manager will take decisions to pick certain players for certain matches.

"Some people might think a player being left out of the starting XI is a big talking point, but it isn't, for me. It's just the result of the Club having a big squad full of quality players and only eleven of them can start the game."