From the man behind the football king to the football king.

Chapter 981 The Four Great Families
After six days of rest, Manchester United players have had enough rest. Under such circumstances, they ushered in the 3th round of the Premier League on the afternoon of March 12, playing at home against Tottenham led by Ronaldo.

Mourinho rotated the lineup in this game. He replaced some of the main starters who had fought hard against Manchester City, but Bruno was not rotated. He still started and helped the team beat Tottenham 3:2.

Bruno was replaced by Mourinho in the 66th minute, having scored a goal and assisted once. The best player for Tottenham was naturally Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored twice in the game and scored all of Tottenham's goals.

In the middle of the week, Manchester United will continue to play at the new Old Trafford Stadium against Portuguese Super League giants Sporting Lisbon. This is the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals.

Thanks to the 5-0 away win in the first leg, Manchester United basically secured their ticket to the quarterfinals, so Mourinho continued with the major rotation in this game, with most of the main players taking a rest.

Manchester United, who played with almost all substitutes, still managed to hold on to a 0:0 draw at home. Sporting Lisbon coach Amorim was also very clear that Sporting Lisbon had basically lost the possibility of a comeback after the disastrous defeat at home in the first round. So he simply rotated the substitutes and played this away game, intending to focus on the Portuguese Super League and compete with Porto for the league championship.

This season, Sporting Lisbon, which is fighting on multiple fronts, is not in a good situation. Although it advanced to the knockout stage of the Champions League, it was suppressed by Porto in the domestic league. Although it performed well and got 26 points after 64 rounds of the Portuguese Super League, Porto's performance was too brave. It is still unbeaten in the Portuguese Super League, with a record of 22 wins and 4 draws, and a full 70 points.

Of course, if Sporting Lisbon focuses on the Portuguese Super League next, there is still a chance of a comeback.

Under such circumstances, Amorim chose to give up the Champions League without hesitation.

Therefore, with a very good understanding between the two sides, in this second round of the Champions League, both sides chose to play with substitute lineups, and the final result was a goalless draw.

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随着一天之后切尔西在客场2:1击败里尔，以4:1的总比分晋级，以及尤文图斯在主场0:3惨败在黄色潜水艇脚下，从而以1:4的总比分被淘汰出局，本赛季的欧冠八强全部出炉。

The Premier League became the biggest winner. Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea, who went to the Champions League, all defeated their opponents and advanced to the quarterfinals of the Champions League, truly occupying half of the quarterfinals.

The remaining four qualifying teams are Real Madrid and Villarreal from La Liga, Bayern Munich from the Bundesliga, and Benfica from the Portuguese Super League.

Serie A became the most embarrassing of the four major leagues, and was completely wiped out in the quarterfinals. Inter Milan performed slightly better. Although they lost 0:2 at home in the first leg, they beat Liverpool 1:0 away in the second leg and won. The most embarrassing was Juventus. Although they tied Villarreal away in the first leg and seemed to have taken the initiative, no one expected that they would lose 0:3 at home in the second leg, which really shocked the world.

Benfica is the only team from a non-four major leagues in the quarterfinals. But compared to the other seven teams from the four major leagues that advanced, they are undoubtedly the big gift package in the quarterfinals.

Everyone is looking forward to winning this big gift package in the quarter-final draw.

In the end, Liverpool became the lucky one. They were the first to be drawn and were lucky enough to get this big gift package.

Bayern Munich was another lucky guy as they drew another relatively weaker team, Villarreal.

The remaining four teams will undoubtedly face strong opponents. The final result is also full of topics. The Manchester derby has been staged in the knockout stage of the Champions League for two consecutive years. This is also the third time in the past five years that the Manchester derby has been staged in the knockout stage of the Champions League. However, the first two times were in the semi-finals, and this year it was changed to the quarter-finals.

The last pair of opponents are naturally the Blues Chelsea and the Galacticos Real Madrid.

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In the last club game of March, Manchester United faced Chelsea at home in the sixth round of the FA Cup.

This was another tough game.

Although Mourinho sent out the strongest lineup, it is not known whether it is because many of Manchester United's main players have experienced nearly half a month of rest and have forgotten how to play. They performed very badly in the first half, conceding two goals in a row from Chelsea and entering the halftime break with a score of 0:2.

Mourinho was furious in the locker room and scolded the whole team, even Bruno. Although the Manchester United captain's performance in the first half was not bad, his failure to lead the team to take the lead at home was undoubtedly the biggest dereliction of duty. Before the start of the second half, Mourinho made substitutions. Rashford, who performed poorly in the first half, was replaced. The performance of Manchester United's youth training prince in the first half was simply a nightmare.

Mourinho was not satisfied with Rashford because of his sleepwalking performance in the first half. His attitude towards the game also irritated Mourinho. Rashford did not immediately fight back after losing the ball, but instead walked slowly, which made him seem out of the game.

This youth training prince, who is about to become the youngest player in Manchester United's history to play 100 league games, performed well in the first two seasons. After Mbappe left the team last summer, he got his first big professional contract in his career. His personal weekly salary increased to 300,000 pounds. Except for a period of highlight performance at the beginning of this season when the contract renewal had not been completed, his performance plummeted after the contract renewal was completed at the end of September.

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Before Rashford became famous, his weekly salary was only 1500 pounds. His outstanding performance also made Manchester United give him a salary increase contract. In the summer of 2016, Rashford signed a new contract with Manchester United, and his salary became 2.5 pounds a week. Then in 2017, Manchester United renewed Rashford's contract for the second time, and his weekly salary became 5.5 pounds. On July 2019, 7, Manchester United renewed Rashford's contract for the third time, and his salary also increased significantly to 1 pounds.

Last summer, after Mbappe left Manchester United at the last minute, in order to retain Rashford, the striker and the prince of youth training, Manchester United started the contract renewal negotiations in advance when Rashford had two years left on his contract and had one year of priority renewal. The contract renewal was negotiated at the end of September, and the two sides signed a "2+1" contract again. Manchester United will keep this outstanding youth training talent until 9, when Rashford will be over 5 years old. The price is that Rashford's weekly salary doubled. Manchester United offered him a super high weekly salary of 1 pounds. With bonuses and other terms, Rashford's actual weekly salary exceeded 2028 pounds. He is the third player in Manchester United to earn more than 30 pounds a week after Bruno and Harry Kane.

Rashford is definitely a high-end player not only in Manchester United but also in the world of football. In the latest weekly salary ranking of players, Rashford ranks ninth, only behind Bruno, Yosi, Neymar, Mbappe, De Bruyne, Harry Kane, Salah and Ronaldo!

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Perhaps it was because of the super contract, coupled with the fact that the player won too many championships with Manchester United in the previous seasons, that Rashford, who just celebrated his 24th birthday, has become a meritorious player with 5 Premier League titles and 4 Champions League titles, an achievement that most football players will find difficult to achieve in their lifetime.

However, Rashford, who has achieved success at a young age, seems to have lost the motivation to move forward, and his performance on the field has become increasingly sloppy.

Over the past period of time, Rashford's playing time at Manchester United has become less and less, and he has gradually been overshadowed by young player Diallo.

Although this was due to Manchester United's overly tight schedule and Mourinho's policy of large-scale rotation, the Manchester United coach's dissatisfaction with Rashford's attitude towards the game was the truly decisive factor.

Unfortunately, Rashford, who was immersed in a beautiful dream, did not wake up in time and continued to do his own thing. Not only did his performance on the field not improve much, but his off-field gossips were endless.

Until today, Mourinho could no longer tolerate this Manchester United youth training prince and replaced him at halftime.

Under the effect of Mourinho's killing the chicken to scare the monkey, Manchester United's performance in the second half made a 180-degree turn, showing their true strength as the overlord of the Premier League, and they pressed Chelsea throughout the game.

In the end, Bruno performed an assist hat-trick in the second half, helping Harry Kane, Greenwood and Diallo score a goal each. Manchester United reversed Chelsea 3:2 at home and advanced to the FA Cup semi-finals.

In the following semi-final draw, Manchester United finally had good luck after encountering two strong opponents, Tottenham and Chelsea, and drew Crystal Palace, the weakest of the three potential opponents.

The other FA Cup semi-final is between Manchester City and Liverpool.

As time enters late March, Manchester United, Manchester City and Liverpool, the three major Premier League giants, still have the opportunity to win the treble this season!

As for another Premier League giant, Chelsea, although they have been eliminated from the FA Cup, they still have a tiny chance of winning the Premier League and Champions League double.

Although Chelsea is currently nearly 20 points behind Manchester United in the Premier League standings, with 10 rounds left in the league, they are not completely without the possibility of reversing Manchester United.

This also shows from the side that the four major Premier League teams, Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Manchester City, are strong in their lineups.

(End of this chapter)