Brad Friedel

[baldbloke]

An example of our ambition

Please discuss

[dedleysting]

Decent signing if you ask me. Friedel is top keeper in this league so to have signed him on a free is great business. If he declines as a keeper then we havent thrown a big fee away.

Keepers can go on for a lot longer than outfield players, so I'm guessig baldbloke is suggesting freidel is too old and we should have signed a younger less experienced keeper (for a big fee)?

This signing is not a statement of our intent. It was a move to stabalise our goal keeper position - much like united signing Van Der Saar a few years ago!

[Biggs]

I don't really know what to think of this one...Signing a 41 year old keeper, i just can't get excited about it.

No doubt he's a good keeper, but surly his age is going to start catching up to him soon

[RiffHard]

I cannot see him becoming our number one keeper, to be honest. Experience is always needed and therefore I'm not too disappointed he has agreed to join us.

[aspursfan]

I'm not really sure what to think about this. I'm not trying to put Gomes down here, but I don't think I'd want him as our #2 keeper. I just don't think he'd deal well with not being first choice and I don't think he'd perform well if he had to come on in the middle of a game or something. He seems to get rattled very easily.

[pukekohespur]

Blackburn bought Robinson to replace Friedel ...didn't they. And now we buy Friedel...why didn't we just keep Robinson?
5 years ago I thought Friedel was the best keeper in the prem, now I'm not sure if he is able to threaten Gomes to be honest.

[Derry-Yid]

Its all about compepition for places...that gives us three keepers all pushing to be number 1 for next season...neither of them will want to be left out or even sub,so they will all be pushing hard for that number 1 spot,which can only be a good thing...its a free transfer at the end of the day..decent siging if you ask me.

[Spurs218]

Can we afford to keep changing our keeper? Our defence need to get used to the keeper and that wont happen if we're constantly changing.

[Holtspur]

I cannot see him becoming our number one keeper, to be honest. Experience is always needed and therefore I'm not too disappointed he has agreed to join us.

According to sky sports, he has joined on Harry's promise that he will be number one, hence Gomes looking to move out......a huge mistake by my reckoning

[dedleysting]

Well if Brad is the new number one that's the goalkeeping "issue" sorted.

On to the strikers.....

[Metalanimal]

I really dont get this, Gomes made some gaffs this last season but if you look at how many times his super saves which border on the impossible kept us either in a match and secured valuable points to what the few blunders cost there is no comparison.

On top of that his is dedicated to THFC and loves playing for us right up until all the speculation started about a new keeper, how can Arry promise Friedel the number 1 spot if he merrits starting places on perfromances and attitude in training??

So now it looks like we have signed a 40yr old veteran who hasnt really achieved f**k all apart from clock up a record number of EPL starts, yes he has experience and catch  but he never could and never will be capable of the match winning saves Gomes can pull off!

It really does look like we are saying bye bye to Gomes remember he set a GK record for us so cant be that bad eh passing the stats Pat J, Ray Clemence, Erik the Viking and Robbo (who replaced Friedel at Blackburn) all in the modern game which is IMO alot harder!

Keepers make errors same as any other player! 

[ugs]

Well if Brad is the new number one that's the goalkeeping "issue" sorted.

On to the strikers.....

Well put Dedley
 
Berbatov and Odemwingie please !!!!!!!!!