The Champions League loss to Liverpool has been used as evidence of player power running wild in Paris but the squad is united behind their new coach
When Paris Saint-Germain's players gate-crashed Thomas Tuchel's press conference after their 4-0 rout of Monaco in the Trophée des Champions and demanded that their coach belatedly fulfil his obligation as a new arrival to sing in front of the entire group, the German launched into a few bars of 'Happy' by Pharrell Williams.
It felt apt, a fitting reflection of the instantaneous rapport that the former Borussia Dortmund boss had struck up with the star-studded squad.