Heurelho Gomes is a strange case. He spent six years at Spurs and, for the first three, he was the first choice goalkeeper - and it was only in the second half of his career at White Hart Lane that he was essentially being paid for doing nothing and it wasn't really his fault. That said, Gomes was earning £50,000 per week at Spurs and to sit as fourth choice keeper - as he did for some of his time at the club - on those kind of wages is a little bit naughty. Gomes signed for Spurs from PSV Eindhoven in the Netherlands for around £10 million in 2008. He made 95 league appearances and 41 in other competitive games - meaning he played 136 games over the course of his six seasons. Not too bad but, in the final seasons, he really was getting money for nothing. Brad Friedel joined Spurs in June 2011 and immediately took Gomes' place in the team, after the Brazilian had made a series of high-profile errors - and Gomes never retained the number one spot again. In fact, following the later signing of Hugo Lloris in 2012, there were times when Gomes was behind Lloris, Friedel and even Jordan Archer in the pecking order. A three month loan spell to Bundesliga side Hoffenheim saw him make nine appearances at the start of 2013 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 Tottenham's matchday squads.
