Former Scotland manager Craig Levein stressed the importance of senior players in setting the culture as Sebastien Pocognoli gets the first chance to work with some of the squad's most experienced players.

Scott McTominay, Che Adams and Kieran Tierney have all joined up ahead of the Nations League finale against North Macedonia and Switzerland after missing the first four games of Pocognoli's reign for fitness reasons.

"A lot of these senior players who Steve [Clarke] had will be the ones who are in charge of the dressing room, if you want to say it in that way," Levein said, whose words were echoed by the Belgian in his own media conference.

"He's got some really good senior players in there who know how the dressing room works and keep the lid on everything and make sure everybody's getting on with each other.

"That's really important. The manager will know that. I'm sure he'll have two or three guys that he'll be able to go to and chat about the team and just try to keep things on a positive note."

Levein knows it will take time for Pocognoli to get to know his players on and off the pitch and work out how best to utilise them in his system.

"You have to do your research on where they play for their clubs, go and watch games," the former Hearts and Dundee United manager added.

"There's a core of the squad there, but it's a new manager and a new staff coming in and they'll all have their different ways of working.

"The new manager is going to take time to work out what he thinks of the players, where he's going to play them."