Remind me again which players got us into our ONE season of CL football? Redknapp may well have thrown them all under the bus after that, but each & every one of the players you say "didn't especially work out" were mainstays in the team that got us into the CL.
Bill Nich got us CL in 1961-2 don't forget, so it was our second season in it.
All 4 were decent squad players, but never became core players for us. Considering they cost about £42m combined too.