CHELSEA stars pocketed a massive £10MILLION bonus after beating Manchester City in the Champions League final.
Kai Havertz scored the only goal of the game as Thomas Tuchel’s side tamed the Premier League’s runaway winners in Porto.
The Blues’ heroes had already secured a tasty £5m windfall after beating Real Madrid in the semis earlier this month.
But, despite entering Saturday’s showpiece as heavy underdogs, they never looked like losing after Havertz netted two minutes before half time.
And nobody could argue it was fully merited.
Chilwell fed Mount and his diagonal pass embarrassed City, locating the gap between Ruben Dias and Oleksandr Zinchenko, and sending Havertz clean through.
Ederson rushed out of his goal but Havertz rolled it around him, steadied himself and tucked into an empty net.
The bonus package was agreed at the start of the season when nobody gave Chelsea a hope of winning the Champions League for a second time.
And boss Thomas Tuchel praised his stars determination after upsetting the odds one final time in the competition.
The German said: It is unbelievable. What a fight. We made it 1-0.
“You could feel it getting closer. The players were determined to win this.
“We wanted to be a stone in their shoe, the stone in the clock work of Manchester City.
“We encourage everybody to step up and step out, to be more brave and create dangerous counter-attacks.
“It was a tough physical game. We had to help each other out.”
Match-winner Havertz, a £70million summer signing from Bayer Leverkusen, said: “We deserved it – now we celebrate.
“I waited a long time and now I have done it.
“I just want to thank my parents, my sister, my grandmother, and my girlfriend who are in the stadium.”
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Asked about the repaying his hefty transfer fee, he added: “To be honest, I don’t give a f*** about that.
“We just won the fucking Champions League! We can celebrate now.”
SunSport revealed that mega-rich City’s squad would have trousered around £15m from a bonus pot should they have won, with some players getting more than others.
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Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
