A great deal of Redknapp's reputation rests on one game, the 2008 Cup Final in which his Portsmouth team scraped a 1-0 win over Championship club Cardiff. In that sense Nigerian forward Utaka can be said to have done his job, assisting the crucial Nwankwo Kanu goal and helping secure his boss the Tottenham job. In truth, however, this one assist was a paltry return for Redknapp's enormous expenditure on him. Redknapp broke the club's transfer record to spend an enormous £7 million on Utaka. In return, the striker managed all of 10 goals in 90 games for Pompey as the club were relegated and entered administration. It wasn't just the huge initial outlay that was costing the club long after the manager had jumped ship, though. Redknapp's greatest financial failing (even more than spending £68 million on players in his second spell at Portsmouth and only making £29 million on sales) was in the enormous wages and lengthy contracts offered to players, another fault he has repeated at QPR. Utaka's £80,000 a week was just the sort of thing that sent the club spiralling towards financial ruin. Naturally when he was earning this kind of wage on such a lengthy contract, Utaka saw no reason to leave and kept drawing that £80,000 every week for four years.
