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.

The Belgian handed out five debuts in his first camp, as well as integrating some other young players within an extended group.

Levein said: “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.

“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.”

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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 said.

“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.”

Pocognoli generally played with three centre-backs last time out.

“He’s done the research and looked to see what he thinks their best positions are,” Levein said. “So he obviously puts them out in the system that he feels would be best suited to the players.

“Systems are funny, aren’t they? Because people can blame them. You can get somebody who’s playing in a system who actually has a bad game. Now, is it the system that’s at fault there? Or is it just the fact that one or two of the lads were just off it a wee bit?

“Sometimes people are quick to say that the system’s not working when individual errors can lead to that. So it’s quite difficult.”