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'Egos not heroes'? Why claims of PSG player power are completely false

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.