Manchester United face yet another substantial compensation bill of up to £20m should they hire Mauricio Pochettino and fire Michael Carrick.
Talks are underway between the club and former Tottenham boss Pochettino to become their next manager. Carrick is poised to be relieved of his duties following a meeting of the club’s senior figures in Monaco on Wednesday.
The i Paper has been told Pochettino has a clause in his contract with the USA national team, which he only signed in the summer, meaning that any elite club wanting to prize the Argentine from his current role will only pay $10m, just over £7m, rather than the full four-year deal cost.
However, it is understood that Pochettino wants to bring his trusted assistants with him, as he has everywhere he has been, which could add as much as £5m, one source said, to the final bill.
Chief confidant and assistant coach Jesus Perez, first-team coach Miguel D’Agostino and goalkeeper coach Antonio Jimenez have worked with Pochettino in every job since his first role in 2009 at former club Espanyol. Bringing them to Old Trafford is almost certainly going to be non-negotiable.
Antonio Jimenez and Jesus Perez would likely join Pochettino at Old Trafford (Photo: Getty)Then there is Pochettino’s son, sports scientist Sebastiano Pochettino, who has followed his father since his time with Tottenham. The quartet were appointed by the USA when Pochettino accepted the national team job two years ago.
It is unlikely, at this stage, Pochettino will keep any of Carrick’s staff on board and will want to bring his own team in.
This, along with the cost of paying Carrick off – he also has an early release clause in his contract that would see him receive around £3m – could take the overall outlay, which did initially seem to be reasonable, to around the £20m mark.
This is on top of the £19m shelled out to hire and fire Ruben Amorim and his staff, which was only reduced to this amount after the Portuguese coach landed another job at AC Milan.
Erik ten Hag’s swift exit also meant another £12m expenditure. Dan Ashworth, who United coveted for longer than he was in the job, cost over £15m to bring in and then acrimoniously part ways with months later,
All in, the £100m mark is set to be passed in compensation amounts shelled out to hire and fire managers and sporting directors in the post-Sir Alex Ferguson wilderness years. All for a club who could not afford a left-back this summer.
The profligacy in the managerial department is simply staggering, for such a behemoth of the global game. Had they moved for Pochettino in the summer, when there were doubts among many senior figures over their decision to go with Carrick full-time, Pochettino would have been available on a free, before he penned his new deal with the US team.
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For now, Carrick is at Carrington as normal, taking training, despite the inevitable fate that awaits him once senior executives have made their final call on the French Riviera.
Pochettino has two Nations League matches in the next week, both against Haiti, to concentrate on. It is unlikely whether the US federation would allow him to leave before those two fixtures have taken place.
Despite insisting they did not want to have to turn to an interim on this occasion, United’s hand may therefore be forced, especially for next Sunday’s trip to Liverpool. Darren Fletcher is the most likely candidate to fulfil this role.
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