I haven’t run those numbers, but I would suspect Wenger’s record would be top.

http://swissramble.blogspot.com/2010/01/harrys-game.html

Also, the sales include players that he didn’t buy. If we’re trying to prove an eye for talent surely it should list all his signings, how much he paid and how much he got back.

Also fails to mention a few of his best deals – Berkovic and Bilic for very little (then a profit), and Iain Dowie+Keith Rowland+£1m = Trevor Sinclair. Now that was genius.

The figures in the article are reworked/distorted to preserve the idea that Harry is a great wheeler dealer. If you download the spreadsheet you can see that the £226m spent vs £230m received INCLUDES players sold AFTER Redknapp left Portsmouth. This privilege is not extended to Benitez, who should then by rights have the sales of Torres, Mascherano and others included in his ‘sales’ figure.

A fairer picture emerges if we subtract those post-Redknapp Portsmouth sales figures from Redknapp’s figure in the spreadsheet. Here,
if you take Redknapp’s last two appointments where he has had money (Portsmouth & Spurs) he has spent an eye-watering £163.5m and brought in just £59.2m. In other words a net spend in excess of £100m, before wages even enter the equation.

It may be coincidence, but someone might argue this is perhaps why he leaves so many clubs in financial disarray (or perhaps dis’arry).

This is a very, very poor article which deliberately twists the figures to fit the prejudices of the author.

Claridge as the number one example of his great signings? he played 7 games and scored just once for Bournemouth, before being sold down the leagues to Weymouth because he wasn’t good enough (later, of course, he proved to be)

The other list of great signings is problematic too – Jamie Redknapp was great, but he’s also Harry’s son. It’s stretching a little to credit him as an amazing eye for talent for noticing over the last 18 years that his kid was a pretty good talent.

The standout 2 players in that list – Gavin Peacock and Efan Ekoku, who a couple of years later were very good Prem players – were signed by Redknapp for a combined £350k. That was a MASSIVE amount of money at that level in 1989/90, just part of the profligate spending that put Bournemouth into that cycle of debt they never recovered from. But back to the point – he spends big on two quality players, they do really well – so well that bigger, richer clubs come knocking. Yet shrewd Harry Redknapp, driver of a hard bargain and always able to get the best deal – by your own figures got just £150k for Peacock (£100k loss) and NO FEE AT ALL for Efan Ekoku (£100k loss). Pre-bosman that’s just incredibly bad business – and even selling them for the same he paid for them might have alleviated so much of the suffering the club was to go through.

Signing Van Der Vaart was a masterstroke and as for the signing of Bale, well, if Harry chose to sell it could be the biggest profit ever made on a player.