We just beat a Billion pound team...

[Steer]

With 3 players brought through from the academy,
a player that we signed from Tooting & Mitcham,
a defender who has just returned from injury for well over a year who has spent his career in the lower leagues,
2 players signed from Rotherham, one of whom is clearly not fit and the other would not even be in the first team were it not for injuries elsewhere,
a 35 year old midfielder,
a 19 year old defender,
a keeper who was regarded a failure the last time he played in England
etc.

With about half of our squad injured, suspended or away on international duty.

Just saying. We have to enjoy these times. It could all come undone in the 2nd leg of course, but we dream.

UTB

 

[Malaguena]

Brilliant couple of opening paragraphs in the match report in The Times today - sums it up:

"There are moments that define cup ties, that define cup competitions, in fact. It came in the 37th minute of a rousing semi-final, in a full Sky Bet Championship football ground, on a tribal, raucous night in the North East when a 21-year-old local lad from Redcar, who joined Middlesbrough at the age of ten, had too much heart, desire and skill for Moisés Caicedo, a signing who cost £115 million.

In that moment a football tie became about desire and Hayden Hackney had it and Caicedo did not. Isaiah Jones had beaten Levi Colwill and crossed low to the edge of the Chelsea six-yard area. Caicedo hit the brakes in tracking his opponent and Hackney charged in, opened his body and slipped a left-footed shot past Djordje Petrovic.

“He is everything you hope for in a player,” Michael Carrick, the Middlesbrough head coach, said. “He is humble, works hard and is hugely talented. He is the life and soul of this club. Honestly, it couldn’t happen to a nicer lad.”"

 

[Ash88]

Sky Sports just did a segment on Chelsea's injuries.... Our entire team (all subs/injured players/etc...) is worth £68 million according to transfermarkt.

Petrovic (£9m)
Gusto (£25m) - Disasi (£42m) - Silva (£2m) - Colwill (£55m)
Fernandez (£80m) - Caicedo (£90m)
Madueke (£25m) - Gallagher (£42m) - Sterling (£45m)
Palmer (£45m)

They subbed on Mudryk (£40m) and Broja (£28m) too. Those 2 are worth the same as our entire squad.

Glover (800k)
Clarke (£3m) - Fry (£5m) - RVDB (£2m)
Jones (£3.5m) - Barlasar (£2m) - Howson (200k) - Engel (£2m)
Crooks (£1.5m) - Hackney (£7m)
Coburn (£1m)

Pretty much no subs as they were both made before 15 mins - £27-28m~ on the field... Nearly every single player of Chelsea's was worth more than our 11 combined.

 

[atypical_boro]

They actually spent £350m on their starting front 6.

 

[Malaguena]

Sky Sports just did a segment on Chelsea's injuries.... Our entire team (all subs/injured players/etc...) is worth £68 million according to transfermarkt.

Petrovic (£9m)
Gusto (£25m) - Disasi (£42m) - Silva (£2m) - Colwill (£55m)
Fernandez (£80m) - Caicedo (£90m)
Madueke (£25m) - Gallagher (£42m) - Sterling (£45m)
Palmer (£45m)

They subbed on Mudryk (£40m) and Broja (£28m) too. Those 2 are worth the same as our entire squad.

Glover (800k)
Clarke (£3m) - Fry (£5m) - RVDB (£2m)
Jones (£3.5m) - Barlasar (£2m) - Howson (200k) - Engel (£2m)
Crooks (£1.5m) - Hackney (£7m)
Coburn (£1m)

Pretty much no subs as they were both made before 15 mins - £27-28m~ on the field... Nearly every single player of Chelsea's was worth more than our 11 combined.

Where on earth did those valuations of our players come from ! - Hackney only £7m, Howson £200k !!!

 

[Ash88]

Where on earth did those valuations of our players come from ! - Hackney only £7m, Howson £200k !!!

They came from transfermarkt - they're not real-world accurate, but they are probably accurate when you compare them to Chelseas on the same website.

Eg. Fernandez £80m - he was actually bought for £120m~?

 

[The Disciple]

Sky Sports just did a segment on Chelsea's injuries.... Our entire team (all subs/injured players/etc...) is worth £68 million according to transfermarkt.

Petrovic (£9m)
Gusto (£25m) - Disasi (£42m) - Silva (£2m) - Colwill (£55m)
Fernandez (£80m) - Caicedo (£90m)
Madueke (£25m) - Gallagher (£42m) - Sterling (£45m)
Palmer (£45m)

They subbed on Mudryk (£40m) and Broja (£28m) too. Those 2 are worth the same as our entire squad.

Glover (800k)
Clarke (£3m) - Fry (£5m) - RVDB (£2m)
Jones (£3.5m) - Barlasar (£2m) - Howson (200k) - Engel (£2m)
Crooks (£1.5m) - Hackney (£7m)
Coburn (£1m)

Pretty much no subs as they were both made before 15 mins - £27-28m~ on the field... Nearly every single player of Chelsea's was worth more than our 11 combined.

Worth and paid for are two different things - our current cost around £30m to assemble i think

 

[Ash88]

Worth and paid for are two different things - our current cost around £30m to assemble i think

It was the quickest/easiest way to demonstrate my point... Sky Sports had a segment on Chelsea struggling because of injuries (no mention of our injuries)... Yet Chelsea's 2 substitutes were worth more than our entire 20+ man squad.