To Tevez or Not To Tevez?

I'm in my third season with Arsenal, and so far have come up short in plans to find the successor to Robin van Persie. All the good young players out there similar to him are way too expensive, and I'm constantly drawn back to Carlos Tevez. He's available for $10m in my game at this point.

He wouldn't be the long-term solution, but I have some really young good players at striker who he could be a mentor for, and the van Persie-Tevez combo on the attack could be lethal. The only thing I'm worried about is that near-$1m a month wage that he'll probably ask for.

The way I look at it is -- I'll spend $10m up front to get him, then like $12m a year to have him around for the next years. That's about $45m for a top-flight striker. A little expensive, but should I do this deal?

Also, would I need to play them both at striker, or could I do well with moving van Persie to AMR and leaving Tevez up front as a trequartista?

I would he is a top player, but who do you already have, as you said he could help bring some young players through, he is going on a free on my game, but as my total wage bill is 240k and he wants 175k, I dont have a chnace lol

I got him on a £125,000 a week contract and others have got him cheaper than that. Is RVP injury prone?

RVP was rock-solid until last year, when two back to back injuries kept him out for the second half of the season. I'm starting to worry a little about that. But right now I play a 4-5-1 like:

RVP

Eden Hazard - Gervinho

Jack Wilshere (BBM) - Thiago

Alex Song

Kieran Gibbs - Laurent Koscielny - Thomas Vermaelen - Sime Vrsaljko

So I'd either have to move to a 4-3-3 with both of them up front, or move RVP to the AMR slot, but there he may not be his usual self.

My wage budget is very good (about $8.5m for wages with a budget of $11.5m), and finances are very good. $900,000 a month would be pretty high for my current wage structure, RVP is currently the top earner at around $750,000/month (and I believe he has a 'match highest earner' clause, which would kick in if I got Tevez at his expected monthly wage).

My problem with the 4-3-3 is that I have lots of good midfielders (Hazard, Thiago, Wilshere, Ramsey, and Andre Ayew), so there would be lots of contention for the two MC spots. None of those guys could play up front as the third forward in a 4-3-3.

On my online game he is tearing up Italy so I would say yes go for him if you need a striker.

I got him in a swap deal, player and £2mil, he is also only on £160k a week so couldn't knock it.

RVP was rock-solid until last year, when two back to back injuries kept him out for the second half of the season. I'm starting to worry a little about that. But right now I play a 4-5-1 like:

RVP

Eden Hazard - Gervinho

Jack Wilshere (BBM) - Thiago

Alex Song

Kieran Gibbs - Laurent Koscielny - Thomas Vermaelen - Sime Vrsaljko

So I'd either have to move to a 4-3-3 with both of them up front, or move RVP to the AMR slot, but there he may not be his usual self.

My wage budget is very good (about $8.5m for wages with a budget of $11.5m), and finances are very good. $900,000 a month would be pretty high for my current wage structure, RVP is currently the top earner at around $750,000/month (and I believe he has a 'match highest earner' clause, which would kick in if I got Tevez at his expected monthly wage).

My problem with the 4-3-3 is that I have lots of good midfielders (Hazard, Thiago, Wilshere, Ramsey, and Andre Ayew), so there would be lots of contention for the two MC spots. None of those guys could play up front as the third forward in a 4-3-3.

Tevez was good for me at AMR might be better to spend a bit more on someone younger though, is Tevez 30 yet?

He's 29. I had a $11m bid accepted -- he wants $1m a month plus clauses. I just can't decide whether to pull the trigger on this.

I've tried to find younger options, but finding an option who has the potential to be as good as RVP (and similar to his playing style) would cost way too much. I do have some good newgens who will eventually get there, but they're like 15-16.

I went ahead and did it. I got him at $900,000/month. I look at this as an all-in bid to win it all in the next two years. Hopefully it pays off.

I signed him for Arsenal and he did quite well. Don't expect him to tutor any young players without a fight though.

I signed him for Villa when his contract ended, got him on £60,000 a week for 2 year deal, and he propelled me into 4th champs league spot.

Well worth it!

I bought him at Chelsea in my second season. Retrained him in AML then AMR and will eventually go to AMC. He is a very versatile player. I use him as rotation.

Got him Jan 2012, for £18.5m and he got me 40 goals in 74 league appearances (as liverpool) then he got a straight red card, so i disciplined him, and the teddy went out of the cot. Failed to report for training 3 or 4 times before Barcelona came oin with £13.5m bid, and away he went...

first season he was pretty average.. 27 games, 7 goals 5 assists (ok thats poor)

second season.. well.... 57 games, 40 goals, 15 assists

third season.. til he got sent off.. 33 games, 14 goals, 13 assists...

He is good, worth buying if you can keep him happy... my second season, him n Doumbia tore the league apart

If you buy him, make sure you play him. I dropped him as he wasn't scoring but everyone else was. He went in a right strop and said he wanted to leave the club!

Based on real life eh??

i bought him on my 2nd season with liverpool, got him for £25 million on £160K week, i aint regretted it, him and suarez got over 50 goals between them, best partnership since slice bread and butter

Signed him for Spurs, second season. He cost £7.5m.

Adebayor was my main striker season 1 - he was immense but I couldnt do the deal to keep him.

Tevez was even better, just over a goal a game, played him up front on his own either as poacher or treq.

I say go for it all day long - you'll win things.

He isn't anything like Balotelli to manage.

best partnership since slice bread and butter

I also heard they were good together

if you buy him, i think you should take him to the woods and shoot him.

Nothing but a trouble making gremlin

RVP was rock-solid until last year, when two back to back injuries kept him out for the second half of the season. I'm starting to worry a little about that. But right now I play a 4-5-1 like:

RVP

Eden Hazard - Gervinho

Jack Wilshere (BBM) - Thiago

Alex Song

Kieran Gibbs - Laurent Koscielny - Thomas Vermaelen - Sime Vrsaljko

So I'd either have to move to a 4-3-3 with both of them up front, or move RVP to the AMR slot, but there he may not be his usual self.

My wage budget is very good (about $8.5m for wages with a budget of $11.5m), and finances are very good. $900,000 a month would be pretty high for my current wage structure, RVP is currently the top earner at around $750,000/month (and I believe he has a 'match highest earner' clause, which would kick in if I got Tevez at his expected monthly wage).

My problem with the 4-3-3 is that I have lots of good midfielders (Hazard, Thiago, Wilshere, Ramsey, and Andre Ayew), so there would be lots of contention for the two MC spots. None of those guys could play up front as the third forward in a 4-3-3.

Go ahead and sign him..

I got him for 8m at the end of my 2nd season.

You can play 4-2-3-1 with your players too.

--------------------------RVP--------------------------

Gervinho--------Tevez(trequartista)----------Hazard

----------------Wilshere------Song-----------------

---------------------Defenders------------------------

Of course Tevez is a top player, but don't use him to tutor anyone. Because his hidden attributes are junk in FM12. A good mentor needs to have high determination, ambition, and professionalism. He is good at the first two, but his professionalism has dropped to 2!!!!!!

I use him as a tutor because he is very easy to manage.

May have a low professionalism stat, but I haven't noticed it in 3 years. He is now 3rd choice striker behind Muniain and Damiao and doesn't complain at all.

I would be very cautious about using Tevez as a mentor, especially with his personality traits - it could ruin some of your up-and-coming stars. AS far as their mental attributes go, there might be some positives, but you've got to watch out for personality too.