Heurelho Gomes signed for Spurs from PSV Eindhoven in 2008 for around £8 million. He spent six years at Spurs and, for the first three, he was the first choice goalkeeper and he made 95 Premier League appearances and 41 in other competitive games in his time at White Hart Lane. However, for three seasons, he was nowhere near the first team and he seemed very content for that to be the case for the majority of that time. He first lost his place when Brad Friedel joined Spurs in June 2011 and immediately took the Brazilian's place in the team. Gomes had made a series of high-profile errors and never retained the number one spot again, with Hugo Lloris arriving in 2012 and pushing him further down the pecking order. Even Jordan Archer ended up higher in the pecking order than he was. Gomes finally started showing discontent in 2013 and a three month loan spell to Bundesliga side Hoffenheim followed but, essentially, between June 2011 and May 2014 when he left Spurs to join Watford for nothing he was making £2.6 million a year for not even making Tottenhams matchday squads. He should have been sold much sooner than that.
