Gomes on Redknapp sacking

[Spurs_Q8]

source: The Sun
subject: Gomes: I’m glad Harry was sacked

HEURELHO GOMES has aimed a parting shot at former Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp for making him feel ‘terrible’.
The Brazilian keeper made a couple of high-profile errors against Chelsea and Real Madrid last season — and it cost him dearly.
Redknapp brought in 40-year-old Brad Friedel and made him first choice at White Hart Lane — leaving Gomes sidelined.
Now the former PSV Eindhoven man has welcomed the arrival of new manager Andre Villas-Boas and hopes it could be an end to his hell in North London.
Gomes said: “Redknapp barely talked to me. I was playing really well when he hired Friedel. So I was really surprised and decided to ask him about that.
“Redknapp asked me to be calm, because I was his goalkeeper and he trusted me, as he told me. But that didn’t happen.
“In the 2010-11 season, I made only two mistakes but I didn’t give them so much importance and I didn’t think I was going to be sacked from the team because of that.”
Gomes reckons his old boss then blocked his chances of getting away from Tottenham to restart his career.
He said: “I asked Redknapp to let me go, but he said no to three offers for me. QPR, CSKA Moscow and Atletico Mineiro wanted me.
“I was close to CSKA because they wanted me only for four months and I was going to play the Champions League, but Redknapp didn’t allow me to leave.”
So Gomes was stuck on the bench for the big Premier League games and he admits it started to affect him.
He added: “People in England have different ways of doing things in football.
“For example, when a club like Tottenham buy you, you have to play really well. So if you play well, everything is OK.
“But if you don’t play well, they don’t don’t help you at all. That made me feel terrible.”
Gomes is now looking forward to a fresh start with Spurs and says he is happy to see out the final two years of his contract.
But he admits a return to South America would appeal if he ends up behind Friedel in the pecking order again this season.
He said: “I’m sure that Villas-Boas’ arrival is going to help me. He is great and he wants to do the best for Tottenham. I’m sure he will achieve many things here. I hope I could play in his team until 2014.
“I have two more years under contract at Spurs and I intend to fulfil them. But I’m tired of Europe, I have reached my limit here.
“I’m 31 years old and I’m thinking about moving back to Brazil.
“Atletico Mineiro wanted me, but Tottenham asked them to pay a fortune of £8million for me and the negotiation finished.”

I don't know how it was only two mistakes, and i wonder how bad mistakes he done whatever under Ramos or Redknapp era, he let us down several times, Redknapp backed him a lot enough. He made some superb saves but in the same time he do bad onces which was so enough !

it's so bad to hit at former manager like that ..

 

[Mattspur]

it's so bad to hit at former manager like that ..

Like what?

 

[HertsYid]

two mistakes!? he made two massive high profile mistakes and a heap of others that went unpunished. having Brad in the sticks last year was much less nerve wracking.

“I’m 31 years old and I’m thinking about moving back to Brazil"

shut the door on your way out mate. he is a great shot stopper. but dropping a clanger most games (many went unpnuished so were forgotton) just isnt accpetable as a top class keeper.

edit. so matt - if you want to rate my post dumb (like i actually give a hoot btw!) would you care to explain at least why you dont agree. nothing i said here isnt true!

 

[FMA]

Why invest in a keeper that has his heart set on leaving in 2014 regardless of whether he is playing or not?

 

[HertsYid]

great shout that

 

[ghetto_spur]

I like Gomes but he did make far too many high profile errors.

I think having been in England for a few years now and learning the game plus having a portugese speaking coach might be just the incentive he needed.

I'd be keen to give him a run out, maybe in cup competitions or pre-season and if he's up to it - the PL.

Friedel was a stop gap, however good he was.

 

[Stoof]

The defence have lost confidence in him. There's no way back.

For a while there I thought he was truly something special. But the clangers in the 10/11 season were clangeriffic.

I know Friedel has his dissenters, but the confidence of the side was so much greater.

 

[guns_healy]

Do me a favour Gomes

Apart from the last 6 months of the 09/10 you have been awful

It's nobody's fault but your own that you haven't played.

We brought in a keeper that isn't spectacular (because of age) but he's consistent and we feel confident with him in goal.

You seem a nice bloke and I wish you all the best but I hope you never play for us In a competitive match again.


Lol I wrote that as if he will read it

 

[camaj]

One of the best keepers in the premiership. Made a few mistakes like all keepers do and more than made up for it with his saves. Our defenders always look nervous, perhaps in the main because we haven't had a manger that's really trained them well. The only time our defenders looked calm was under Santini.

According to one of the guests on this weeks The Spurs Show, all the players before the stevenage game were practising short, quick passing but when the game started Dawson was hoofing the ball out. It takes a long time to break these habits.

 

[Nocando]

Sounds to me as if he's trying to play the sympathy card and downplay the mistakes and their importance (his opinion couldn't be further from the truth). Maybe that reflects my view that he just isn't mentally and physically strong enough to cope with PL football.

On his day he can be a wonderful keeper (that Van persie one is still in my top Spurs saves) but I think his time has come, and judging by his comments it sounds like he thinks the same.

 

[jonnyp]

Gomes must be deluded if he thinks he only made two mistakes. He's at fault for losing his place, no-one else, so the sooner he stops blaming other people, and knuckes down instead, the better it will be for his own career.

 

[Paolo10]

I'm sorry, but for me his sole positive is his shot stopping, Brad's got his number all over IMO, mental strength being the key. His judgement is poor, he makes too many basic handling errors and his distribution is actually pretty poor...the man can't kick and his big loopy, showy throws are all too often really poor.

Imagine being a centre half and busting your ass all game only for him to drop a couple of clangers and undo all your good work. I hope it's the last we'll see of him, him being around will not help our progress any IMO.
The fact he seems to be blaming everyone else and mentions 'two mistakes' (Massive LOL btw...he's obviously as good at counting as he is at catching the ball) just highlights the fact Brad coming in hasn't changed him one iota. I was hoping for a comeback, him to show he has the stones for the job. Doesn't look fucking likely.

Thanks for the mutlitude of great saves, overall good riddence though tbh. You're just too flakey and weak minded.

 

[Mattspur]

shut the door on your way out mate. he is a great shot stopper. but dropping a clanger most games (many went unpnuished so were forgotton) just isnt accpetable as a top class keeper.

This is the bit I rated dumb. Simply not true.

He's played about 100 games for us. you think he's dropped over, say 80 (being "most"), clangers?

I didn't think so.

 

[tototoner]

he is still our best GK - by some way

 

[Paolo10]

This is the bit I rated dumb. Simply not true.

He's played about 100 games for us. you think he's dropped over, say 80 (being "most"), clangers?

I didn't think so.

Sorry, but you are bang wrong. At least one basic handling/goalkeeping error a game, dropping the ball, coming for crosses he's no hope making, injuring defenders etc. Not all them led to a goal, but the mistakes were pretty fucking consistent.

Is the Lampard one he let through his legs not a clanger then as technically it shouldn't have been a goal?

TOO MANY MISTAKES.

 

[tototoner]

Sorry, but you are bang wrong. At least one basic handling error a game, dropping the ball, coming for crosses he's no hope making, injuring defenders etc. Not all them led to a goal, but the mistakes were pretty fucking consistent.

Is the Lampard one he let through his legs not a clanger as technically it shouldn't have been a goal?"

It was given as a goal though

Thing is regarding the handling errors at least he is not allergic to the ball in the air, unlike steady never comes off his line Friedel

Gomes saves more certain goals than he lets in through stupid clangers

 

[Riandor]

It was given as a goal though

Thing is regarding the handling errors at least he is not allergic to the ball in the air, unlike steady never comes off his line Friedel

Gomes saves more certain goals than he lets in through stupid clangers

Uh the whole issue is he clatters the whole defence whilst coming for the ball, never catches it (or very very rarely) and the punches often end up no where safe at all.

Sorry, prefer steady Friedel stay on line and when box is crowded let the defenders deal with it and save (or try to) any resulting attempts on goal, rather than play 10pin bowling, punch the ball to an opponent and be on the floor leaving said opponent with an empty net to aim at.

For me Gomes's mistakes or downsides were bigger than the individual errors. It's about what he does to the team as a whole.

I don't care how many world class saves he pulls off if he is scaring the absolute crap out of every player, manager and fan in the process.

Look, good keeper, but Friedel inspires more calm and as a result it shows that Gomes for us at least doesn't work. Typical Brazilian keeper.

 

[King of Otters]

Gomes needs to stfu really. No doubt 'arry is/was a slippery fucker but 'Mr Clown Face Butter Fingers Throw The Ball In My Own Net 'cos I'm Fucking Shit' himself has no business complaining about that.

 

[JimmyG2]

The defence have lost confidence in him. There's no way back.

For a while there I thought he was truly something special. But the clangers in the 10/11 season were clangeriffic.

I know Friedel has his dissenters, but the confidence of the side was so much greater.

How do you judge that the defence have lost faith in him and that the confidence was so much greater?
The press lost confidence in him, a body of fans lost confidence in him certainly,
but what are the criteria for judging the confidence level in the keeper of the defence.

They might prefer a keeper that doesn't stay on his line
and makes outstanding saves and who is brave to the point of stupidity
and a drama queen as a result.

I'm not saying you are wrong but just that your assertion is impossible to quantify
or prove.

 

[StartingPrice]

How do you judge that the defence have lost faith in him and that the confidence was so much greater?
The press lost confidence in him, a body of fans lost confidence in him certainly,
but what are the criteria for judging the confidence level in the keeper of the defence.

They might prefer a keeper that doesn't stay on his line
and makes outstanding saves and who is brave to the point of stupidity
and a drama queen as a result.

I'm not saying you are wrong but just that your assertion is impossible to quantify
or prove.

From watching them - they seemed calmer under Friedel.
Had the debate with someone else, previously - there is no proof either way.
I like the big, daft Octopus - but the manner of his blunders, rather than the number of them, made it harder for defenders to relax.

I am sure he felt like this, but, maybe, he shouldn't have went public.

Please don't reopen old debates, just go back and read them (not directed at you Jimmy), as absolutely nothing has changed since they were had.

As a little aside, largely academic now, and still wished he hadn't said it, but it does add another layer of proof to the contention that 'Arry's much fabled man management doesn't extent to players he doesn't see as part of his plans - that was virtually the same as players like Kranks said (don't want you to go, still part of plans, will get game time - and then never used, or brought into the circle).