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penisole That process was not without its difficulties: Pochettino had a different role to play and for some of the older players, the transition from team-mate to coach proved uneven. Economic and footballing reality played their part too: Espanyol's budget virtually halved in two and a half years. In that time, under Pochettino almost 20 players came up from the youth team to play for the first team. For some that was "brave", for others it was a problem. Younger players offered him more aggression, intensity and hunger, one veteran says. But, he muses, the other good thing about young players might just have been that they're more malleable.