Ghaly: I'm desperate to leave Spurs and go to a bigger club

[Mighty T.A.L.]

Tottenham midfielder Hossam Ghaly has demanded a transfer after growing fed up with Martin Jol's rotation policy.

Ghaly was criticised by Spurs supporters after he threw his shirt at manager Jol when he was substituted against Blackburn last week.

The Egypt international, who was fined two weeks' wages and dropped from the final game of the season against Manchester City, made an official apology on the club's website and joined the rest of the squad for the traditional parade round the pitch after the match on Sunday.

But Ghaly revealed he lost his cool against Blackburn after failing to hold down a place in the the team.

The 25-year-old claimed he has already had one transfer request turned down but he is determined to leave this summer and has now put in a new request.

He said: "I asked to leave a few weeks ago so I can play more and in my regular position, but my request was declined.

"My agent will repeat my request and I don't know if it will be accepted this time. What I did against Blackburn was wrong, and I have to admit that, but I am a human being and felt very frustrated when I got replaced after 30 minutes of coming on.

"There are things that accumulated and resulted in me acting in this way. I am not playing regularly and when I play, I don't play in my normal position.

"On many occasions, I played well or scored a goal only to find myself out of the squad or on the bench in the next match for no particular reason. This is very frustrating for me."

Ghaly, who claimed a club "bigger than Tottenham" want to sign him, started 17 games in the Premiership this season, but his impact was minimal compared with the other midfielders at Jol's disposal.

Ghaly insisted fellow Egyptian Mido also wants to quit Tottenham having started only 13 games for the club this season. The striker almost joined Manchester City in January.

Ghaly said: "Mido has asked to leave but I don't know his destination yet."


The last straw: Ghaly throws his shirt away in disgust last week against Blackburn

Source: The Daily Mail

[bandini]

please make him go. I would be only too happy.

[RavenKing]

A bigger club? what due to the immense amount of talent he has? Geez he should thank his lucky stars he made it this far and is playing for as big a club as Spurs.

[kyan]

what an arrogant twat, I used to think he was a decent player, plenty of potential.

But he was never going to go much further at Spurs, and he was lucky enough to get there in the first place because even then Spurs are perhaps better than him and he was injured when they bought him.

If Egyptian football is going to develop though their players have to grow up! If Mido and Ghaly are anything to go by (2 of the most successful of the current generation) then they've gotten way too big for their boots and need someone to bring them back down to earth.

[bandini]

Originally Posted by RavenKing

A bigger club? what due to the immense amount of talent he has? Geez he should thank his lucky stars he made it this far and is playing for as big a club as Spurs.

I couldn't agree more.

Originally Posted by kyan

If Egyptian football is going to develop though their players have to grow up! If Mido and Ghaly are anything to go by (2 of the most successful of the current generation) then they've gotten way too big for their boots and need someone to bring them back down to earth.

Mido has actually been ok because he has a history of being a trouble maker and surprised me by not complaining much at Spurs and being "well behaved". Ghaly is just nuts. We could easily do without him.

[kennethlindheim]

He's shown glimpses of what he can do, but so rarely, and most games he's played he's had a terrible attitude and put in **** performances.

[kyan]

Ghaly now wants Tottenham stay
tribalfooball.com - May 22, 2007

Hossam Ghaly insists he wants to stay with Tottenham.
"I met with (Martin) Jol before I left for my summer vacation and he assured me that there are no hard feelings and that he is keen on keeping me with the team next season," Ghaly told FilGoal.com.

"The club already took a disciplinary measure against me and Jol said that was sufficient."

Ghaly has admitted being substituted left him extremely frustrated, but concedes his actions were not acceptable.

"I was very upset," said Ghaly. "I'm under a lot of pressure because I try to do my best in every game, yet sometimes I'm not chosen, even when I do well.

"Nevertheless, my conduct was unacceptable."

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No interest then?

[southparkosm]

i agree. bigger club? who will sign him lol