Chelsea 2 Bradford City 4: £200m Blues can't beat £7,500 Bantams
Blues led 2-0 but were pulled back by League 1 opposition
Chelsea's £200million men were sunk by a supermarket shelf stacker who was plucked from non-league obscurity for the princely sum of £7,500.
James Hanson was the only member of the Bradford City squad at Stamford Bridge to have cost the club a fee when he joined the League One side from Guiseley in 2009.
The rest of Phil Parkinson's parade of heroes were stitched together by a mixture of free transfers and low-key loan deals.
In contrast the total cost of Jose Mourinho's shocked stars clanged the £200m mark.
Even £99m of talent on the bench alone could not rescue Mourinho from the most embarrassing moment of his managerial career as the Bantams proved worth their weight in gold.
CHELSEA
PETR CECH: £7m
ANDREAS CHRISTENSEN: trainee
KURT ZOUMA: £12m
GARY CAHILL: £7m
CESAR AZPILICUETA: £6.5m
RAMIRES: £20m
OSCAR: £25m
JOHN OBI MIKEL: £4m*
MOHAMED SALAH: £11m
DIDIER DROGBA: free
LOIC REMY: £8.5m
Subs: Cesc Fabregas - £30m, Nathan Ake - trainee, Eden Hazard - £32m, Thibaut Courtois - £5m, Willian - £32m, John Terry - trainee, Ruben Loftus-Cheek - trainee
TOTAL COST: £200m *plus compensation
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BRADFORD CITY
BEN WILLIAMS: free
STEPHEN DARBY: free
RORY McARDLE: free
ANDREW DAVIES: free
JAMES MEREDITH: free
BILLY KNOTT: free
GARY LIDDLE: free
FILIPE MORAIS: free
ANDY HALLIDAY: free
JAMES HANSON: £7,500
JON STEAD: loan
Subs: Alan Sheehan - free, Billy Clarke - free, Francois Zoko - loan, Mark Yeates - free, Jason Kennedy - free, Christopher Routis - free, Matthew Urwin - free
TOTAL COST: £7,500
(all fees reported)
PA
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