"It is a new thing for all the lads to get used to but I don't think he will change too much because there is not a lot wrong - though there will be some tinkering," he explains.
Michael says he has tried not to let the manager situation affect his own bid to play his way back into match fitness, and adds:
"I can only speak for myself and it hasn't bothered me too much; the gaffer is coming in to a strong team which is expected to win every game and if we play as we did against Burnley we will win a lot of games.
"He came in the dressing room before the game but obviously we had to put things to the back of our minds to get on with the job."
The home draws against Norwich and Burnley tell the story of much of the season, however, and Michael adds:
"It has been frustrating but at least we are creating chances and it is not as if we are playing poorly, which would be a different story.
"Look at the quality we have got up front; Saturday was just one of those days where it wasn't going to happen for us.
"Although we scored two we could have had three or four before they even got a chance although overall perhaps we didn't play as well as we could."
Speaking ahead of his first game in charge, against Nottingham Forest, Alan adds:
"They are very good opposition, with one of the best players in the league in Reidy and there is a lad at the back called Dawson as well.
"They do play an attractive game and it will be a good game to watch, I think; they won't come here to defend, they will have a go.
"From our point of view Alexandersson has gone back and Pearce is struggling so we have lost a couple of bodies which has not made it particularly easy.
"The team doesn't pick itself as such but there were only one or two decisions to be made and it is not enough - I need more decisions to make than that."