da marjack bet： Heurelho Gomes may be a name most of the English footballing community would have likely long forgotten by now.
da realsbet： The 34-year-old goal-keeper might have been best known for his calamitous antics at White Hart Lane just a few short years ago, but as the former Tottenham man could soon be back in the Premier League with his recently promoted Watford outfit next season, it seems the experienced Brazilian will once again resurface within our wider footballing consciousness once again.
In a shock war of words against his old side however, Gomes has somewhat surprisingly had some pretty damning statements to make about Spurs in the last few days, namely their treatment of their recently acquired stars such as Eric Lamela and Roberto Soldado.
When speaking of their failure to do the business at White Hart Lane since their expensive high profile moves a few summers ago, the enigmatic ‘keeper has revealed; “The club is to blame. I certainly wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.”
“They paid 28 million pounds for Soldado and don’t play him. And Lamela, who was a great promise in Europe, today you watch Tottenham games and looks like he can not play ball.”
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Although his words have likely been taken out of context to some degree and must therefore be handled with a large pinch of salt to say the least, they nevertheless arrive in pretty incriminating form. Is the former White Hart Lane regular way off in his recent estimation, or does Heurelho Gomes actually make a somewhat significant point?
Well, even though the majority of Tottenham fans out there would simply laugh these reports off as nothing more than idle gossip and bitterness from an ex-player who never quite made it at their club, the former PSV shot-stopper has in-fact raised a curious issue regardless of their views.
Gomes may have been quick to backtrack slightly over the comments on Twitter in the last couple of days – claiming that he’s “still supporting this great Football Club and will continue to do” – but it seems this can of worms has already been opened whether he likes it or not.
The facts of the matter really are simple in the cold light of day. Yes, the word ‘ruining’ does seem a bit strong with all things considered, but ultimately that just seems to be the only notion to describe what is happening to the careers of Eric Lamela and Roberto Soldado since they first made the switch to White Hart Lane.
It can be fairly suggested that Tottenham’s recent transfer activity – whilst seemingly enjoying the spoils of the much publicized Gareth Bale money a few summers ago – just hasn’t put their players in the most comfortable of places to work their magic out on the pitch. The club brought in seven new faces during the summer of 2013, and although each name commanded a pretty sizable transfer fee and decent reputation, none of them had any Premier League experience whatsoever and subsequently failed to live up to their hype once the season began.
Obviously a couple of those players have since stepped up their game to great affect this campaign, Christian Eriksen and Nacer Chadli spring to mind almost immediately, but the majority of the other aforementioned stars still haven’t really delivered as a result of the conditions in which they arrived. It was a flawed plan from the start to expect seven new faces who were just beginning their Premier League careers to gel straight away and do the business together right from the start.
Their overly-inflated price tags and the merry-go-round managerial appointments at the club really haven’t helped matters from a Tottenham point of view either. Spurs have certainly had several transfer successes to match their failures throughout the years – that goes without saying – but ultimately too many expensive sacrifices have fallen by the wayside to be ignored.
You need just look at how the likes of Steven Pienaar and Gylfi Sigurdsson have rediscovered their form since leaving Tottenham in the past to know that something is going wrong here. Lewis Holtby is another name who showed a great deal of promise when he initially arrived, but through his distinct lack of game time at White Hart Lane, his is another move that just hasn’t paid off so far.
Yes, some of their players haven’t done themselves justice individually and are partially to blame for what has gone wrong since they joined the club, but maybe this is a problem inherently rooted in the way the decision making is done at Spurs above all else.
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