200M CHELSEA STUNNED IN FA CUP BY £7,500 BRADFORD! Chelseas £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 Parkinsons parade of heroes were stitched together by a mixture of free transfers and low-key loan deals. In contrast the total cost of Jose Mourinhos 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 BRADFORD 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
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 15:53:18 +0000