[FM14] "This is my club, my one and only club."

All staff removed and only 24 young players remain.

New Tottenham chairman Cole Archer has managed to agree deals with 24 players

that are willing to stick with the club after it's demotion to the Skrill Premier.

The club is now owned by the fans.

Full Squad will be revealed soon.

Average? Well I was happy with those applications.

I decided to go with Helveg who had applied for the DoF vacancy.

Woodgate is one of five players making a return to White Hart Lane.

39 year old CB Tomas Repka also joins the club on a free transfer.

Note: My transfer policy will be to continue to bring some former players

back to the club and also bring in under 21 year olds to develope at the club.

That gives us a full squad looking like this.

I gave contracts to ten grey players Maloney, Ingram, Todd, Gallagher, Banton,

Banks, Smith, Baptist and the two players who are out on loan.

Currently all players in our under 18 squad are grey.

I have been busy recruiting backroom staff, I decided not to head hunt staff

and only employ people who applied to our job ads.

Here is what we have, you will notice some making a return to the club.

No surprise that we are favourites

Note: I've only really had long efforts at games on the FMC version of this game, I thought I would enjoy that more because

it takes out a lot of the stuff I don't really like doing, anyway after finally deciding on my game and to demote my beloved Spurs I am

really enjoying the full version more and liking the new features (for example, having chats with players out on loan). It's still early days

but my aim is for this to be a long term game like my Stopsley Utd game on FM10 which I still play and currently in my 48th season.

Also maybe I should try to explain why I demoted Tottenham, well there are quite a few teams that I would like to manage, Luton, Bishop's Stortford,

Dusseldorf and Borussia Dortmund to name just a few, it's hard to decide which one to go with out of those especially has a long term one club game,

So the easiest choice is to go with the club I love and the reason for starting lower down is because I want to see how the young players progress

and when I start with Spurs in the top flight I seem to lose interest with the games when the squad mirrors about 80% of real life or more.

A tough pre-season but with some of our opponents that was to be expected so nothing to be

too concerned about going into the season. We start at home with a game against FC Halifax.

Obviously a whole load of trophies needs to be added here.

Can we add the FA Trophy?

Will these records be broken? Would be great if they are.

Won't be as good if done in lower divisions though.

August 2013

September 2013

October 2013

Skrill Premier Table

Player Stats

Going well with just a couple of defeats, an early exit from Europe, I thought

it was a decent draw for us but soon changed my mind after a terrible first leg.

Kidderminster are keeping up with us at the moment so we can't afford too many

slip ups, we have also made progress in the FA Cup after with our early entrance.

Oh dear....................

Spurs Agree Deals for Future Signings!

Debayo was supposed to join at the end of the season like the others but I messed

up in the dealings so he will join us in January. We have to wait a bit longer for

Vadalá though and I'm looking forward to seeing how these players develope.

There is a little bit of interest in Bentaleb.

Here is one of our latest results ahead of a bigger update to come.

Zak Bond is clearly clueless lol.

Some more England news.

Firstly, it's good to see Kane make his debut.

Secondly, despite that poor result against San Marino England qualified

by winning the group and here is the group they have for the finals in Brazil.

I have also had a lot of messages like this.

So far I haven't requested a postponement, it means that other players will

get a chance and I will continue that way until it involves a higher number

of players being away and maybe how we are actually doing at the time.

Bentaleb and Dier Commit to Spurs!

Great news, these players are vital to our climb back up the divisions, just

hope I can continue to hold off all the interested clubs that come in for them.

Plus another couple of members of staff join the club.

November 2013

December 2013

January 2014

Another player returns to White Hart Lane.

Skrill Premier Table

Things are going great in the league as we have opened up a big gap over the rest.

We continue to do well in the cups and were comfortable against Portsmouth and

Wrexham before conceding two goals in each that made for a tight finish to those games.

We had a tough test against Aston Villa and we were outplayed for most of the match

so I was delighted when Coulthirst levelled to earn us a replay at White Hart Lane.

Player Stats

I asked for a new contract and my wish was granted.

Archer and Bentley Sign New Deals!

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Have to laugh at the idiots that think Spurs nicked a Man Utd song.

It was a tough scoreline to take at half time as we dominated it apart

from that early strike which was their one and only shot in the half.

Thankfully we were soon level after the break and the game became

a bit more open with chances for both sides, we were still creating

the more chances and eventually we took control to lift the trophy.

February 2014

March 2014

April 2014

Skrill Premier Table

Player Stats

Best XI

Awards

A great season winning two trophies, it was nice to win the cup but obviously promotion

was the most important as we take our first step back up to the Premier League.

Next season we have five players joining having already agreed deals, we might bring in 2/3

more but I want to keep most of the current squad together, the new players are with a view

to the future so they will need time to develope, we will also have to fight off interest in players

like Bentaleb, Kane, Carroll and Dier, I want to keep them and hopefully I can keep them here

and they can lead us back to the Premier League.

World Cup 2014

England did a lot better than in real life but still didn't make it through the group stage.

Brazil avoided the Germans and managed to beat the Dutch on the way to the final.

Five deals were agreed last season, Lawrence & Rusnak were released by Man Utd

and Man City, we didn't have the budget to sign them at the time but when further

funds were made available they were still without a club.

Pre-Season 2014

August 2014

September 2014

October 2014

League Two Table

A great unbeaten start in League Two, our only defeat so far was a harsh

one, we dominated the game against Brighton, they had one shot which came

in injury time and that was us out, annoying but the league our main aim.

November 2014

December 2014

January 2015

League Two Table

Our home is not a fortress, the two league defeats have been at WHL and also

a couple of heavy cup defeats. Nevertheless we have built a good lead at the

top of the table and we are looking good for another promotion.

Player Stats

Transfers In

Another player returns to White Hart Lane.

The young right back will challenge for a regular first team spot.

Players out have just be loan deals involving players from the U21's and U18's.

February 2015

March 2015

April 2015

May 2015

League Two Table

Second step on the road back to the Premier League complete with the league two

trophy and promotion to league one, we suffered just the odd defeat now and then

though the last game of the season was quite a shocker but promotion was comfortable.

Player Stats

Thanks

Best XI (Season)

Best XI (Overall)

Awards

Retirements

Gradi leaves at the end of next season.

New Stadium

New Contract

Club Link

New Signings

We have had to wait for Vadalá, looking forward to seeing him in action.

Pre-Season 2015

July 2015

August 2015

September 2015

October 2015

League One Table

Out of two cups, had a shocker in the JPT against Millwall but a great victory over Everton

and only suffered a narrow defeat in the North London derby in the Capital One Cup.

Going well in the league only losing once as Crewe hit us with a late winner.

Player Stats

November 2015

December 2015

January 2016

League One Table

A two way battle at the top between us and Shrewsbury, in the clash between

us we were 3-0 up at half time but we surrendered that in a poor second half.

A couple of narrow defeats with the most disappointing being the 1-0

loss to Peterborough Utd especially as it was at White Hart Lane.

Still in the FA Cup, a big win against Sutton Utd but narrow wins since, was

expecting better against Skelmersdale, a 1-0 win really isn't good enough.

Player Stats

Transfer

Another player returns, the 37 year old Canadian GK is unlikley to make the first team.

He has a double role at the club, He will play and be a GK coach for the under 21's though.

Most of these players are very unlikely to make the grade with us.

February 2016

March 2016

April 2016

League One Table

Shrewsbury Town made a good battle for most of the season we just

managed to pull away towards the end, the two games between us

ended 3-3 and 0-0 so we couldn't beat them on the pitch, another

team we couldn't beat was Crewe as they beat us 3-2 again. After thjat

defeat we then only dropped points in the draw with Shrewsbury as we

notched up eight wins in our final nine games to clinch the League One title.

Player Stats

Best XI (Season)

Best XI (Overall)

Awards

He wouldn't even discuss a new contract, we will also be losing Tom Carroll as he

also has no interest in holding contract talks, more gutted about Carroll as I was

hoping he would be at the club for years to come, will probably try to get him back

at a later date but need to see who he signs for first.

He has seen us coming and decided to get out early.

Season 4 - 2016/2017

New Stadium

Betting odds for New Season

New Contracts

Kane and Dier not interested in talks, four players were not offered new deals.

Everyone else offered new contracts accepted their deals.

Transfers

Huddlestone and Kranjcar return as we splash the cash, Huddlestone will take the captains

armband, a decision that Dier accepted without any problems. Redmond is a great capture

and should be a big player for us in the coming season, Caballero will replace Kane upfront.

Foster will take the number 1 jersey and the other players are great deals as they came

at low prices and should/could turn out to be really good bargains.

Kane was put on the contract list due to not signing a new deal, still hoping

that Dier will but we might lose him on a free, anyway I'm willing to take

the risk as I feel we need to keep him in defence for a promotion push to the PL.

I wasn't planning to sell Lithgow but Celtic tempted me with a really good offer.

We also have a lot of players that are out on loan to get some first team action.

We have new staff at the club due to replacing retiring staff.

Will post a full updated list at a later date in the season.

Season 4 - 2016/2017

Pre-Season

We open our new stadium as we host our Pre-Season tournament, however the crowds were

low and we put on our poorest showing to finish 4th, we then went on a tour to Germany and

results were good only suffering a narrow defeat to Borussia Dortmund during our 4 games.

July 2016

Our season started in July again and our game was picked for TV, a crowd of just under

51,000 turned up at the new 58,000 capacity Hotspur Arena to see us open with a narrow win.

Season 4 - 2016/2017

August 2016

It has been a slow start with mixed results, a defeat to West Ham is bad at anytime so obviously

not happy with that, we also suffer another early cup exit as we were brushed aside by Blackburn.

We finished the month with a nice big win and sit in 11th position at this early stage of the season.

Season 4 - 2016/2017

September 2016

I have been getting some stupid annoying messages that players feel the club is under achieving.

REALLY? what exactly should we have achieved by now? maybe stop wasting chances when we

dominate games and that might help a fair bit, anyway we were unbeaten this month as we started

with another draw with Shrewsbury, then it was three good wins in a row before a draw in the last game.

Season 4 - 2016/2017

October 2016

We are now on a 14 game unbeaten run in the league, that has looked close to coming

to an end lately but we have manged to keep it going with some late strikes.

Nathan Redmond has made a great start at the club, other new signings have also been

good and it was pleasing to see Bagnack and Bernard get their first goals and also to see

Hoban score on his debut, We are now top but there are three teams on 31pts, Nottingham

Forest are 2nd and we play them in our next match and Norwich City are 3rd.

We suffered a big injury blow during the Brentford match.

Player Stats

Can you guess the final score?

Edit

Obviously it was..............

Season 4 - 2016/2017

November 2016

A very poor month picking up just 2pts and we have now lost ground in the promotion race.

Simply not good enough and I let the players know it, I hope for much better next month.

Season 4 - 2016/2017

December 2016

It was a great month, well apart from the result in the middle obviously, don't really know what happened to us there,

Can only put it down to it being just one of those games or maybe a better way of putting it is that's FM for you.

We are struggling in 2nd place, oh dear god who writes this rubbish?

Season 4 - 2016/2017

January 2017

A month of two halves, first good with three wins and the latter bad with three defeats.

To make matters worse they were heavy defeats with sixteen goals conceded in those defeats.

Transfer In

Just the one player in and only players going out were loan deals.

Player Stats

Season 4 - 2016/2017

February 2017

It was a good month and in the top of the table clash we gave West Brom a thumping.

We came back down to earth with a poor result at Brighton, the promotion race looks like

it will go down to the wire with four maybe five teams going for those two automatic places

Season 4 - 2016/2017

March 2017

A run of three defeats was ended with a 0-0 draw at home to Sunderland, we really

need to buck our ideas up or we will have to face the play-offs and maybe miss

out on the promotion race altogether, we got our form back on track in the last two

games with a great display at Brentford and a solid performance against Doncaster.

Season 4 - 2016/2017

April 2017

We started the month 2nd but went top after thumping the leaders.

After that great performance against Nottingham Forest we go and lose to Leeds again.

When we lost to Norwich City it looked like it was going to be just a play-off place but

we went into our final game against Charlton with an outside chance of snatching

an automatic place. Going into the last game the table was like this....

We did our bit by gaining sweet revenge over Charlton.

I was keeping an eye on the West Brom score and it was looking good for us as

it was 0-0 and then it got even better when Leicester went ahead, it was still ok

when Brunt levelled that game but it made things a bit nervy as a winner for them

would have secured 2nd place, it looked to be heading for a draw which would have

been good enough for us but a late winner from Futács gave Leicester the win.

So we move up to 2nd and automatic promotion to the Premier League.

West Brom did finally gain promotion after coming through the play-offs.

Final Table

Season 4 - 2016/2017

Player Stats

Awards

Best XI (Season)

Best XI (Overall)