retired_jowen

Tottenham Hotspur FC are a long-running traditional English football team who play in the English Premier League. They play at White Hart Lane in London and have recently forged a large, young, English squad for the upcoming season. They are commonly called the Spurs by their fans and have the motto "To dare is to do".

Founded: 1882

Ground: White Hart Lane

Address: Bill Nicholson Way, 748 High Road, Tottenham, London, N17 0AP

Capacity: 36236

Highest gate: 75,038 v Sunderland(FA Cup 6th Rd replay Mar 1938)

2007/2008: Competitions Barclays Premier League , UEFA Cup , Carling Cup , FA Cup


They have enjoyed a successful past becoming one of the more honored clubs in England:

Football League First Division / Premier League 1950-51, 1960-61

Football League Second Division
1919-20, 1949-50

FA Cup
1900-01, 1920-21, 1960-61, 1961-62, 1966-67, 1980-81, 1981-82, 1990-91

League Cup
o 1970-1, 1972-3, 1998-99

FA Community Shield
1920-21, 1951-52, 1961-62, 1962-63, 1967-68, 1981-82, 1991-92

UEFA Cup
1971-72, 1983-84

European Cup Winners' Cup
1962-63

Tottenham were the first club in the 20th century to achieve both the league and cup double, achieving this feat in the 1960-61 season. They also became the first British club to win a European trophy in 1963 when they brought home the European Cup Winners' Cup.


Squad:

Goalkeeper:
Radek Cerny
Paul Robinson

Defender:
Gareth Bale
Michael Dawson
Younes Kaboul
Pascal Chimbonda
Benoit Assou-Ekotto
Lee Young-Pyo
Paul Stalteri
Anthony Gardner
Ricardo Rocha

Midfielder:
Jermaine Jenas
Adel Taarabt
Tom Huddlestone
Wayne Routledge
Didier Zokora
Teemu Tainio

Attacking Midfielder:
Aaron Lennon
Steed Malbranque

Striker:
Darren Bent
Dimitar Berbatov
Jermain Defoe
Robbie Keane


You take over when the club celebrates it's 125th birthday - with expectatinos high it's up to you to bring success to a club which has been waiting many a year for the glory days to return.

Expectations: The club expect you to be a title challenger within 2 years.

Transfer Budget: £15M

Key Players: Ledley King, Aaron Lennon, Dimitar Berbatov

retired_jowen

Danny Rose looks like he could solve the left-midfield crisis within a season or 2, not sure what his PA is yet.

retired_Jackieboy

Well done Azeryk :thup:

You forgot Boateng in the Attacking midfielder though.
He's really good in the game as it happens & has been overrated by the German researchers I think.

I'm glad my pressure got SI to bump our transfer budget up, it was going to be 3.6m! :eek:

Tip for the new game.
The AMC position is crucial.

retired_Jackieboy

I think "Broadway" is -9 potential if memory serves.

retired_Jackieboy

And the Man City formation 4-2-3-1 was working great for me in the beta demo.

Doesn't suit Spurs all that well though with our 4 strikers.

Still a 10m bid for Defoe from Pompey got accepted by Levy as too good to turn down so I only have to find a buyer for Keane.

retired_jowen

Cheers Paulinho - You can do next years and we'll just rotate

I think the main thing with Spurs is to sell one of the strikers right away - very few people will need and be able to keep happy all four and I can see Defoe being the one to ship out. As with ghaly and Tainio.

Boateng looks good so far, am yet to play around with formations but I'll probably stick with 4-4-2 attacking to start with.

And I noticed I missed him, and that it doesn't look as good as expected but these forums don't let you edit your own posts

purejunie

Had offer for Keane and Ghaly and bought Mitea (Did well on original with Farfan).

If injuries are as daft with FM07 will need at least 4 strikers.

retired_jowen

I didn't have any problems in FM07, I had 3 main strikers and struggled to keep the third one happy. Any other strikers I end up using are youth players who I don't mind playing from time to time anyways.

retired_jowen

One thing that sucks with FM2008 is the amount of players who have moved clubs that I can no longer sign, or wign without spending my whole budget. Ruined my plans - LOL

Akinfeev is avilable BUT for £16.5M!!!

Guardado - I gave up at £18M

Aaron Niguez - Now £5M, I remember signing him on FM2007 for £160k

retired_Jackieboy

Modric is quite expensive now too.

The position of DMC is a bit weak as neither Hudd or Zok are really good enough (bit like real life).

You could try Kaboul there if you want some steel (the French researchers have him down as a natural DMC).

Bargain of the game so far for me is Sergey Ignashevich from CSKA on a free.

He's a ridiculously good defender.