Manage the owners, trim the squad and Pochettino’s other key tasks at Chelsea

Left to right: Romelu Lukaku, Mykhailo Mudryk, Mauricio Pochettino and Hakim Ziyech. Composite: Guardian Picture Desk

Maintain relations with owners and recruitment chiefs

Mauricio Pochettino needs Chelsea’s controlling co-owners, Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali, to see him as the boss. The new manager must pay attention to Arsène Wenger saying that Boehly was wrong to enter the dressing room after Chelsea’s defeat by Brighton to tell the players that the season has been “embarrassing”. Boundaries have to be established. Pochettino’s has to be the loudest voice.