Manchester United’s bench at Blackburn Rovers contained £192m worth of talent with Paul Pogba joined by Juan Mata and Luke Shaw
Jose Mourinho's seven substitutes worth £192m between them - including world record signing Paul Pogba
MANCHESTER UNITED showed their financial muscle by naming the most expensive substitutes bench in FA Cup history against Blackburn on Sunday.
The combined total of the seven players watching on from the dugout was £192m, with substitutes Paul Pogba and Zlatan Ibrahimovic combining to score United's winner.
What's more, two of the players - Ibrahimovic and academy product Dean Henderson - cost United nothing in transfer fees.
World's most expensive player Pogba cost the most, with his £89m value worth almost as much as the rest of the bench put together.
Juan Mata was the next most expensive - the Red Devils forked out £37m to bring the Spaniard to Old Trafford from Chelsea in 2014.
THE UNITED BENCH
Paul Pogba - £89m
Juan Mata - £37m
Eric Bailly - £30m
Luke Shaw - £30m
Bastian Schweinsteiger - £6m
Zlatan Ibrahimovic - free
Dean Henderson - free
Luke Shaw and Eric Bailly cost £30m each, with Bastian Schweinsteiger's fee of £6.5m completing the total.
Manchester City had previously held the record for the most expensive FA Cup bench - Pep Guardiola had £169m worth of talent behind him in the dugout during City's clash with Crystal Palace last month.
Unsurprisingly, Jose Mourinho turned to his supersubs in the second half with the score at 1-1.
Pogba, Ibrahimovic and Mata were all sent on to find a winner and it was the former two who proved decisive.
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Pogba's lofted pass for Ibrahimovic caught the Blackburn defence napping and the Swede swivelled and fired home.
United had earlier gone behind to a Danny Graham goal, before Marcus Rashford's equaliser ensured it was all-square at the break.
Ibrahimovic's goal came 15 minutes from the end, with Blackburn having a late equaliser rightly ruled out for offside.