Man Utd’s useless owners mean Pochettino can instantly get whatever he wants

As a club manager, Mauricio Pochettino has a win percentage of 50.15. Which is not bad.

It is way below Pep Guardiola’s figure of 71.3 but in Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Manchester City, Pep had the advantage of being in charge of three powerhouse teams.

Pochettino managed Tottenham Hotspur for five seasons. A win percentage above 50 percent at that club can be considered a very decent achievement.

Michael Carrick’s win percentage in his spells as Manchester United manager is 48.57.

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Carrick, of course, has no managerial honours to his name. But Pochettino, despite having a 12-year head start on Carrick, does not have too many more than that.

A domestic cup and a league title with Paris St Germain - a team that has won Ligue 1 in 12 of the past 14 seasons - is the sum of his major trophy wins as a manager.

Pochettino is a hugely likeable character. He has always been highly-regarded by the media, that is for sure. And the job he did at Spurs, in particular, was very impressive.

But the unarguable truth is that in recent times, it is hard to think of a manager whose reputation remains so gilded despite so little material success. Rarely has a coach with so few baubles been so lauded.

Sometimes, a big-name club and a big-name manager simply do not gel and that was probably the case at Chelsea, although excelling under that ownership and recruitment model was always going to be a tall order.

And to be fair, Pochettino’s one season at Chelsea was mildly commendable. A late-season surge saw them finish sixth in the table - having finished 12th the previous season - and they reached the final of the League Cup, where they were beaten by Liverpool, and were knocked out of the FA Cup at the semi-final stage by Manchester City.

Pochettino is clearly a smart operator. But his appointment will still be a gamble. And Pochettino himself must already wonder what type of characters he will be dealing with when it comes to running the squad and the club.

Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Omar Berrada - co-owner and chief executive - could have approached Pochettino at the end of last season. His deal with the United States national team was expiring after the World Cup, in which they were thrashed by Belgium at the last-16 stage

That way, United could have got him for nothing instead of adding another £7.5 million to a managerial recruitment/compensation bill which will now be in excess of £50 million since Ratcliffe became involved.

It will cost a couple of million more to pay Pochettino’s backroom staff. And Pochettino is going to want a serious pay-packet. He is going to want parity with most of the best-paid bosses in the Premier League, that is for sure.

He will not get Mikel Arteta’s £20 million a year but he will want a lot more than Carrick’s £5 million. He will want at least double.

Such is the combination of United desperation and naivety, he will probably get it. And Pochettino might prove to be worth every penny of what he can get out of these useless club owners.

But even though he is still considered one of the managerial super-elite, Pochettino still has a lot of proving to do.