Joyce comes in with the experience working with Hull City, Leeds United’s youth, Belgian club Royal Antwerp and spent eight years with Manchester United’s reserve team.

He was also recently in charge of then-Championship side Wigan Athletic where he had little success.

City Football Group managing director Brian Marwood oversaw Warren’s recruitment and has strong links in Manchester.

The 52-year-old Englishman acknowledged City won the FFA Cup last season, which was their first piece of silverware, but felt the most pressure was from himself to win the club their first A-League title and an AFC Asian Champions League (ACL) berth.

And with the restrictions seen in the A-League with the salary cap, youth players and foreigners, Joyce didn’t draw much difference to his time in Europe.

“It’s not really dissimilar to some of the challenges I’ve had in the past,” Joyce said.

“Reserve football, the better players, as soon as they start playing well either go into the first-team or  get sold, so that’s a challenge in itself.

“The other clubs that I’ve managed weren’t particularly good at paying the players on time, so that possessed a different set of problems and I’ve managed abroad in Belgium as well.

Joyce walks into City Football Academy for the first time with his new staff on Monday morning.

“There’s problems or challenges in every job, I wouldn’t look at it as problems, and I’d look at it as a challenge that if you want players to react, where nothing is a problem.

“That they’re up for everything, the approach, things they may not like doing with the same enthusiasm or doing things they love doing, that’s the attitude you want to see engrained in the players as well.”

Joyce had a light-hearted reaction saying “thanks”, after it was pointed out he perhaps wasn’t the rock star appointment the public were expecting.

The 52-year-old was looking to see the team's capabilities before making any drastic changes to the squad, regardless of age and reputation.

With the experience he has experience with Aussies Harry Kewell, Mark Viduka, Jacob Burns, Danny Milosevic, Shane Cansdell-Sherriff and Jamie McMaster, Joyce said he's watched plenty of Australian football over the years.

Joyce in United colours at Anfield coaching against Liverpool in 2014

Marwood said Joyce "sees football as a way of life, not a job" and the newly-appointed City boss elaborated on the comment.

“People aren’t turning up just to get the money, it’s all the feelings you want to have, that nobody can see,” Joyce said.

“You know inside yourself what you’ve done, achieved, what the bond has been like, the spirit. They’re the aims, the things money can’t buy.

“(You) try to aim for perfection on the training ground and in the games.

"If you get that on a consistent basis, you tend to win more games than lose and then the feeling of winning games or cups or a championship.”