The Red Rebels' victory over Southampton was accompanied by Arsenal's victory over Sheffield United to reach the FA Cup final for the third year in a row.

This is the third time the Red Rebels have met Arsenal in the FA Cup, the first two of which have ended in a draw, and now they will meet in the final on May 17 at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales.

After the two games, the major media began to play up the FA Cup final, believing that it would be another battle between the Red Rebels and Arsenal, coincidentally, the two sides had a home game before, and now the third time is at a neutral stadium, which seems to be a battle between the two sides.

But relatively speaking, it is the league game in which Arsenal meets Manchester United that catches the eye.

The Red Rebels, on the other hand, are preparing for the upcoming semi-final clash with Lazio in the UEFA Cup.

Almost all the media believe that the dark horse journey of the Red Rebels will stop in the top four, because Lazio's strength is not at all something that the Red Rebels can resist, and Lazio's results in Serie A have been stable in recent years, and they won the Serie A championship in 2000.

Although the current Lazio can no longer be compared with the wealthy Lazio in 2000, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, even if Lazio is down, they are still a Serie A powerhouse after all.

And compared to Lazio's full squad of players, the absence of Kaka and Juninho Jr. will have a big impact on the Red Rebels.

Previously, Mourinho arranged De Rossi to start in place of Juninho Jr., although the performance was good, but still failed to play Juninho's position, the team's big win was just a sign of the team's strength, De Rossi did not play the ability to control the pace of the game in the game.

This also made Mourinho give up the transformation of De Rossi's midfield commander, because after a season, De Rossi is obviously more suitable to serve as another 1 in the 4231 formation, the double back position, so Mourinho said when talking to Xiao Yu that he hopes to introduce a substitute player with strong organizational ability next season.

When Xiao Yu heard Mourinho's request, multiple names immediately came to mind, Deco of Porto, Xavi of Real Sociedad? Alonso, Arteta of Glasgow Rangers in Scotland, Gourcuff in the Rennes academy in France, Cesc Fabregas in the Barcelona academy.

These players are all well-known players with strong organizational skills, and none of them are yet fully recognized by the world, and there is no doubt that in this, Xavi? Alonso is the kind of player who can play when he comes, and he also has defensive qualities that other players don't have.

When talking to Redondo, the latter mentioned Alonso many times, thinking that there are only two players who are most like Redondo in today's football, one is Xavi of Barcelona, and the other is Xavi of Real Sociedad? Alonso.

Promotion to the Premier League is a certainty for the Red Rebels this season, with the remaining remaining question being to win the title or second place promotion, with Mourinho aiming to beat Portsmouth to win the trophy while also winning the UEFA Cup and FA Cup.

And the introduction of Xavi? Alonso is undoubtedly the most ideal, because he has played in La Liga for many years, has rich experience, and can contribute to the team when he comes, and as a Real Madrid fan, Xiao Yu is very interested in Xavi? Alonso was impressed.

For this reason, Xiao Yu immediately asked Walsh to get in touch with Real Sociedad and consult Harvey? Alonso's price, but Real Sociedad didn't pay much attention, and through the relationship with Xavi? Alonso's agent got in touch with him, and there was little interest in joining a promoted Premier League side.

This made Xiao Yu feel depressed, but at the same time he also dismissed the possibility of attracting Cambiaso from Real Madrid, because it was impossible for the other party to come to the Premier League to play for the promoted horse, so Xiao Yu turned to Arteta, although the player is not famous, but the strength is still very strong, and he has performed well in the Rangers team this season.

There was also a Michael in the academy? Johnson, who is not yet 15 years old, will obviously not be able to rely on him for a while, so Xiao Yu immediately asked Walsh to take the initiative to contact several players he circled, and also asked Boas's scouting department to collect information about these players and send them to Mourinho's office for him to participate in the selection.

However, at the same time that the Red Rebels decided to bring in players with organizational surnames, the Red Rebels players were also seduced by other teams.

........................ "This is definitely psychological warfare!" ”

When Xiao Yu saw the news that Lazio was interested in players such as Juninho Jr., Hleb, and Drogba, his first reaction was that the Italian media was playing psychological warfare, hoping to influence the opponent in this way.

This kind of tactic is often encountered by many giant teams when facing weak teams, and the players who are seduced by them, once they are slightly shaken psychologically, their performance will be greatly reduced.

Let's see what kind of players they are looking at, they are the main core of the Red Rebels this season.

"I'm wondering, does Lazio still have so much money to buy people?" David laughed mockingly.

Everyone laughed.

"Then we might as well turn around and announce that we have a crush on Stankovic, and even worse, we simply offer Stankovic directly, and see how Lazio reacts, so we bid 15 million euros, which is the price they bought Stankovic at the beginning, but now it is different." Xiao Yu smiled a little richly.

With the current financial situation of Lazio, who poached who does not know?

The crowd burst into laughter again.

"But you still have to pay attention to the mentality of the players, our players are generally young, especially their emotions before the tournament, the home game against Lazio is a tough game!" Xiao Yu said a little cautiously.

If you lose at home, it will be even more difficult to play away, especially against the backline led by Stam, everyone knows that Lazio's defense this season is one of the best even in the Serie A schedule.

Mourinho nodded confidently, "Don't worry, I'll take care of these things!" ”

"Then the matter of seducing Stankovic is also handed over to you, if you have the ability to seduce him, then our playmaker midfield reinforcement will not have to be so troublesome!" Xiao Yu said with a smile.

Sure enough, in the afternoon of the same day, Mourinho coincidentally "met" the reporter of the Manchester City Evening News, and then talked about Lazio's players through the reporter's clever questioning, Mourinho believes that Stankovic is very suitable for the current Red Rebels, and he also hopes to get Stam because the latter has performed well in England.

The Red Rebels currently lack a playmaker in midfield and a leading defender, while Stankovic and Stam are a perfect fit for Mourinho and he will be hoping to bring them to Manchester.

"If they are willing to come to the Red Rebels, then next year's Red Rebels will be one of the strongest contenders for the Premier League title, don't doubt it, I believe my team has that quality!"

"Does that mean that the Red Rebels are ready to spend a lot of money to buy people this summer?"

Mourinho laughed a little arrogantly, "I just had a meeting with the boss, he wrote me a blank check, he said to me, Jose, how much money do you need, just fill in, as long as it is the players you need, I will bring them to Newton Heath, I was very excited, I said to him, boss, I promise, we will be the darkest dark horse in the history of the Premier League!" ”

"Don't believe me? Think I'm a fool? Well, ask Lazio, we're targeting Stankovic and Stam, both £20 million! ”

This series of news broke out, and the reporter immediately asked Lazio, who at first denied receiving an offer from the Red Rebels, but soon the pervasive media found clues that the Red Rebels did make an offer of 20 million pounds, and Lazio also paid some attention to it, because the latter was indeed poor.

At the same time, the Red Rebels have also contacted the agents of Stam and Stankovic, but the latter two have made it clear that they have no intention of joining the Premier League promoted clubs.

But on the very day Lazio arrived in Manchester, a crowd of fans at the airport put up a banner hoping that Stam would return to Manchester, all as if Lazio had accepted the Red Rebels' offer.

However, it is no wonder that Lazio is indeed in financial crisis at the moment, and the team is currently held in the custody of the bank, which means that the manager and the club board do not have much say in the buying and selling of players, and for the bank, if the sale of Stam and Stankovic can be exchanged for a large transfer fee, they will undoubtedly be willing to do so.

All of a sudden, there was a lot of news about the Red Rebels buying Stam and Stankovic at a high price, and preparing to make a big splash in the Premier League next year, especially those English media, who chased the Lazio players to ask these things.

On the contrary, the Red Rebels have long been accustomed to the style of the English media, and the team launched Mourinho to show off, but the preparation in the training base was not disturbed, especially the tactics arranged by Mourinho specifically for Lazio are being carried out in an orderly manner.

However, Lazio, on the other hand, immediately received media attention after arriving in Manchester, and even the team's preparation was affected, not to mention the mood of the main players, especially Stam and Stankovic.

According to the current understanding of Lazio, as long as you can afford it, even a League One team, you can buy any player from Lazio, just look at Nesta last summer, he is a world-class central defender, but the price of selling AC Milan to AC Milan is a full third less than Ferdinand.

In this kind of club with a financial crisis where even the flag players can be sold cheaply, the players will not show it without outside influence, but once there is a little bit of trouble, everyone will worry about who will be the next person to be sold?

It's you? Or me?

Today's Red Rebels have obviously captured this psychology of Lazio players, and in Xiao Yu's opinion, if 20 million pounds, which is equivalent to more than 30 million euros, can buy Stam and Stankovic, it is definitely a good deal.

According to Xiao Yu's joke, if you are not afraid of selling, you are afraid that you will not sell, and you had better want to sell but dare not sell!

(To be continued)