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Heurelho Gomes

clevelandspur said:
I don't ever remember him being phenomenal. He had his best run of form the second half of the season when we earned CL football but he was still dodgy especially on crosses. When we got Brad here almost everyone was instantly expressing how different it was to have a keeper you could trust week in week out. He was a good character and wish him well but scared the **** out of me when he was between the pipes
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he was absolutely phenomenal the last few months of the season we got champions league, we simply wouldn't have qualified for champs league without his performances. He had plenty of dodgy moments at other stages of his career here, but that period I don't know how anyone can say he wasn't phenomnal.
 
yeah but you need goalies to be 99.999% reliable at what they do. one mistake in a long while is acceptable, however a series of mistakes with some regularity - the whole team's confidence can be rocked.
 
Gutter Boy said:
Ledley said in a recent Q&A that he's the best GK he's ever played with (mentioned David James as the second).

He was phenomenal for a bit before his confidence got destroyed. By all accounts a really top guy/good presence round the club too.
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I loved him.
The thing with him was confidence. He was an emotional player and we simply did not have the ability to man-manage him through the rocky spell. Such a shame.
 
clevelandspur said:
I don't ever remember him being phenomenal. He had his best run of form the second half of the season when we earned CL football but he was still dodgy especially on crosses. When we got Brad here almost everyone was instantly expressing how different it was to have a keeper you could trust week in week out. He was a good character and wish him well but scared the **** out of me when he was between the pipes
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That was after Gomes suffered a massive drop in confidence and form, not after his phenomenal season when we got CL football.

He was the best goalie in the league that season imo.
 
There was something about Gomes that could have made him one of my all-time favourites if he had stayed for a long time. He was likeable and brilliant, but also vulnerable. Unfortunately the latter let him down.

I do wonder if he can get his career back on track. Three years without really playing will be hard to recover from.
 
braineclipse said:
That was after Gomes suffered a massive drop in confidence and form, not after his phenomenal season when we got CL football.

He was the best goalie in the league that season imo.
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That season for me was the best goalkeeping over a season I've seen in my Spurs supporting life. He was phenomenal at times. I remember the 0-0 v Man Utd and the 2-1 v Arsenal
 
diego_maradona said:
That season for me was the best goalkeeping over a season I've seen in my Spurs supporting life. He was phenomenal at times. I remember the 0-0 v Man Utd and the 2-1 v Arsenal
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In fact, the way in which he was tossed on the scrapheap was when I realized the-then manager really wasn't a 'great man-manager' after all, because Gomes is an amazing keeper when he's in a good frame of mind.
 
thfcsteff said:
In fact, the way in which he was tossed on the scrapheap was when I realized the-then manager really wasn't a 'great man-manager' after all, because Gomes is an amazing keeper when he's in a good frame of mind.
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I kept hoping and hoping that Friedel had been brought in as a short term fix while we helped Gomes sort out his shortcomings for the longer term fix. Then Gomes wasn't even used in the EL games where we played almost only kids. :(
 
Sorry, Gomes was likeable if a bit of a pansy, but we haven't had a keeper like Lloris in a long time.

Gomes to Lloris is like comparing Terry to King, one may look more spectacular at times, but the other is vastly superior technical player than reads and kills situations before they happen.
 
For me Gomes is the ideal back up to Lloris. He really was immense in that run of games towards the end of the season that the club got ECL football. His problem was that he was always prone to making an error and his confidence seemed to drop. Friedel was better when he came in, but I still think the way in which Gomes was benched was unfair. Look at how AVB made Lloris earn his place in the 2012/13, that was a fairer way of doing it and yet the media still hounded him for it.
 
Raziel said:
Sorry, Gomes was likeable if a bit of a pansy, but we haven't had a keeper like Lloris in a long time.

Gomes to Lloris is like comparing Terry to King, one may look more spectacular at times, but the other is vastly superior technical player than reads and kills situations before they happen.
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Who's comparing?
I love Lloris.
I loved Gomes.

No comparing going on, just appreciation. Of course, we COULD compare, and I think the major trump Lloris has over Gomes is his mental strength and steady focus. But raw ability? Both are great.
 
Sorry he used to **** me off immensely with those stupid injury theatrics, sometimes when we had all the momentum. He was a pain in the **** when that happened. Dont know why he started doing this, because it wasnt something that happended when he first signed.
 
thfcsteff said:
Who's comparing?
I love Lloris.
I loved Gomes.

No comparing going on, just appreciation. Of course, we COULD compare, and I think the major trump Lloris has over Gomes is his mental strength and steady focus. But raw ability? Both are great.
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Gomes was a better shot stopper. But this is only one facet of goal keeping
 
Wow this thread is very surprising to me. A love in for our grossly overpaid unused third string goalkeeper I guess time does heal all wounds
 
clevelandspur said:
Wow this thread is very surprising to me. A love in for our grossly overpaid unused third string goalkeeper I guess time does heal all wounds
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People still remember that without his extraordinary performances we would never have experienced our very memorable CL qualification and campaign.
 
clevelandspur said:
fair enough just seems a bit odd usually these are the people getting slated for inflating our wage bill
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I get your point, but my impression has been a bit different, particularly for those that played a big part in that CL qualification. Players like Gomes, Hudd, BAE, Palacios, Corluka, Crouch and Kranjcar for example (all 20+ league appearances that season) have always had a large number of people supporting them even when at times later they've fallen out of the first team for variuos reasons.
 
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