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That's not true a number of senior players at Espanyol weren't happy about him as he developed into the role. As for the fans there wasn't too many who seemed too upset when he was was sacked there when they dropped back down to bottom of la liga
Here's some comments from one of the players that played with him and under him at Espanyol, it doesn't make good reading
"As a team-mate it was one role; as a manager, another," says Moisés
Hurtado, who played with Pochettino and then under him. "As a player he
had weight in the dressing room but as a manager there were later some
attitudes that I didn't share. He wanted to control everything. The
first season was fine: he'd been a player and he understood, he
connected with us well. But then things changed. He seemed to see
conspiracy where there was none and some good people had to leave out
the back door, and not just players. He wanted everyone to dance to his
tune, people entirely committed to him. The atmosphere ended up not
being so good. In purely sporting terms, though, there was no problem:
he got great results and we played well."
Ah, thee oldee work colleague gets a promotion and encounters resistance from said former colleagues when he tries to exert his new authority chestnut. Sounds like he initially tried to connect to them as fellow players, then eventually tried to install his ideas as the legitimate boss.
Some of that quote of the player complaining sounds great actually
Wanted people to dance to his tune ?
Wanted people fully committed to him ?
Ideal.
Id be more worried if problems had occurred in a situation where he came in to a club as the manager from the outset