Live updates from Slavisa Jokanovic's Sheffield United press conference ahead of Derby County clash

Here’s a few key themes to emerge from his meeting with the media

It’s horrible, it was a shock and it’s always disappointing to see big clubs struggling like that, the players won’t give in and the manager wont let them feel sorry for themselves, they’ll come here wanting to prove something. They’ve got a good core of lads, we know a few there and they won’t feel too sorry for themselves. They have some experience there to help them through the tough times.

The good thing about this squad is that the players and squad know how to get out of this division, we have to consistently perform now and keep picking up results to have a chance at the end.

It’s another Irishman added to the squad, we’ll still be taking over. It’s good for Conor to come in and settle in a lot quicker than if he didn’t know anyone. He’s a great lad, a great trainer and works really hard. He’ll add a lot to our team this season.

If you go through the lads, a lot of them have played a good chunk of their careers in a back four. Rhys will have played there with Stoke, Ben and George and Egs will have done so too. We’ve got an experienced bunch of defenders and we can adapt.

It’s going to be a squad game this season, competition for places and it just raises everyone’s levels. Every player will have a big part to play this season.

He’s been brilliant, it’s a bit different from the last manager but it was my first involvement on Tuesday so it was good, yeah.

Yeah, it was tough. I’m just looking to push forward now. All you can do is work away behind the scenes and keep pushing, and when the chance comes you’ve got to go and take it.

It was a tough game, we had to dig in deep together and played some good stuff considering a lot of the lads wouldn’t have played together. We created some good chances and were disappointed not to win the game. We needed fresh faces, to boost and lift the place and the fans. We didn’t want the hangover from last season and the best thing we could do is to get new faces in to give the place a boost.

The chance came earlier than I expected, I just found myself in loads of space.