akaranzo's FM 2012 Tottenham save

So I had a thread about my save where I was Arsenal in football manager 2011, this time I'm going to manage their rivals - Tottenham



Formation:


4-4-2 diamond







Transfers:

In:

Vaclav Kadlec - from Sparta Prague for 4.9 million euros. - Needed another striker that's young and he is perfect for that, one of the wonderkinds in this fm, also wanted to snap him up before some other club does.

Alphonse Areola - from PSG for 7.5 million euros - I probably overpaid for him but he seems like a decent future goalkeeper, since both Friedel and Gomes aint that young anymore I figure I could use a young goalkeeper that can start playing as a regular in a few seasons.

Ragnar Klavan - From AZ for 1.5 million inital fee, plus 1 million over 12 months and 2.5 million after he has made 20 appearances in the league. Just wanted to sign an Estonian player but seriously though, he can offer decent cover to Assou-Ekotto since we are lacking a bit in left backs at the moment.

Yaya Sanogo - from AJ Auxerre for 2.5 million, seems like a good youngster with lots of potential.

out:

Carlo Cudicini - to Napoli for 500k - he's 37 already and not that good plus I have just signed another GK so didn't really need him.

Niko Krancjar - to Liverpool on loan, fee of 2.5 million. Didn't really need him and needed some money to sign players.

Pre-Season:



yeah, the pre-season went really well, we trashed all of the opponents


next update will be on the Wolves match - which is the first league game of the season

good luck even though it's Spurs

Gegilworld93 wrote:good luck even though it's Spurs

thank you

So the first game of the league:





This was a very odd match, we got an early goal but then we really started struggling against Wolves. They were playing really well and looked like scoring so many times. But then I brought on Kadlec for Defoe, and immediately he scores, making it 2-0 for us and then Wolves just fell apart and Bale got two more goals to complete his hat-trick. So yeah, the scoreline doesn't tell the full story of the game



next game: Europa League qualifying: Malmö FF - Tottenham

easy game tbh, we dominated the game and Defoe played really well and got a hat-trick

Very good start.

pretty poor performance... but at least we got the 3 points

Liverpool wrote:Very good start.

yeah, really working out well so far

Europa League here we come

Europa League group stage draw

we drew Stoke City for the League cup 3rd round

very very poor performance, we were lucky to get a draw...

just signed Yaya Sanogo for 2.9 million, seems like a youngster with really good potential. Liverpool, Arsenal, Man Utd and Manchester City were all after him too, but he opted to join us

another poor performance but at least we got the 3 points this time...

nice to start with a win in Europa League

finally a nice and comfortable victory to send us to the next round of the League Cup

drew Leeds United in the League Cup 4th round

good win, Adebayor missed an empty goal and I was about to take him off for missing that but in the next highlight he scores lol

I think this needs someone following it.

another nice win in Europa League, disappointed with Sandro


next game is against Man Utd

don't ask me how I did that, I don't know either

Adebayor out for 3 weeks

Bit of advice for you. Train Sandro to be a CB, he becomes a defeinsive beast after a few seasons and has perfect stats to play there (or just be great backup)

Point wrote:Bit of advice for you. Train Sandro to be a CB, he becomes a defeinsive beast after a few seasons and has perfect stats to play there (or just be great backup)

ok, will do that, thanks

another nice win, Pavlyuchenko is really playing well, our best goalscorer atm.

Van Der Vaart is out for 3 weeks now though

3rd match, 3rd win in Europa League, Pavlyuchenko on the scoresheet again

srry I haven't posted for a while, I didn't play this game for a bit and then I started playing again and couldn't be bothered to post the pictures here, now I got a lot of them to post




an ok performance, at least we got the win




destroyed Leeds in the league cup




first loss of the season




not a bad way to bounce back from a loss

poor finishing, but we got the 3 points this time




that's more like it



meh.



WTF just happened



second loss of the season

what a result

Adebayor hat-trick against Arsenal



good solid win




we should have scored more, 24 shots and just 1 goal, that's terrible finishing
but the 3 points mean we go through as top of the group in the Europa League





good win, would have preferred not to concede 2 goals though



another solid win, things are going well.


next post will include my signings of the January transfer window, one hell of a signing to be revealed

So the big signing of the January transfer window was:










Carlos Tevez for 20 million

hopefully he wont refuse to play anytime soon

and I sold Jake Livermore to West Brom for 1.2 million, assistant reports said he isn't gonna be that great and he really didn't fit into my system anyway

so now on to the results:



ok performance and win



Van Der Vaart lucky we got the 3 points



meh



Blackburn are being managed by Martin Jol in my game now so they're not as bad as you would think



another scrape win...