SO 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.
Here's the full list...
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
(all fees reported)
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