HOME GROUND: White Hart Lane

MANAGER: Andre Villas-Boas

LAST SEASON STATS

PREMIER LEAGUE: 4th
FA CUP: Semi-final
LEAGUE CUP: 3rd Round
EUROPE: Europa League group stage
TOP SCORER (ALL COMPS): Emmanuel Adebayor, 18

SQUAD

KEEPERS 1 Heurelho Gomes 23 Carlo Cudicini 24 Brad Friedel DEFENDERS 4 Younes Kaboul 5 Jan Vertonghen 13 William Gallas 16 Kyle Naughton 19 Sebastien Bassong 20 Michael Dawson 28 Kyle Walker 32 Benoit Assou-Ekotto     33 Steven Caulker Bonghani Khumalo

MIDFIELDERS 3 Danny Rose 6 Tom Huddlestone 7 Aaron Lennon 8 Scott Parker 10 Rafael Van Der Vaart      11 Gareth Bale 14 Luka Modric 15 David Bentley 29 Jake Livermore 30 Sandro 31 Andros Townsend 21 Jermaine Jenas 22 Gylfi Sigurdsson

FORWARDS 17 Giovani Dos Santos 18 Jermain Defoe

STAR MAN: GARETH BALE

Tottenham have worked miracles to keep Bale at the club. He got ten goals and 11 assists, from midfield, in the Premier League last season

YOUNG ACE: KYLE WALKER

Won the Young Player of the Year award last season for his runs forward and solid defending

SUMMER TRANSFERS

IN: Jan Vertonghen (Ajax, £10m), Gylfi Sigurdsson (Hoffenheim, £8m)

OUT: Steven Pienaar (Everton, £4.5m), Vedran Corluka (Lokomotiv Moscow, £5m), Niko Kranjcar (Dynamo Kiev, £5.5m), Ryan Nelsen (QPR, free), Ben Alnwick (Barnsley, free), Louis Saha (released), Bongani Khumalo (PAOK, loan), Massimo Luongo (Ipswich, loan)

STRONGEST LINEUP

[GK] FRIEDEL

[RB] WALKER

[CB] VERTONGHEN

[CB] DAWSON

[LB] ASSOU-EKOTTO

[CM] SANDRO

[CM] PARKER

[RW] VAN DER VAART

[AM] MODRIC

[LW] BALE

[ST] DEFOE

4-2-3-1

Style: Attacking with pace

TOP 3 TWITTER STARS

1 RAFAEL VAN DER VAART - 765,361 followers

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2 JERMAIN DEFOE - 924,925 followers

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3 AARON LENON - 235,530 followers

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RATINGS

DEFENCE: 8

MIDFIELD: 9

ATTACK: 4

OVERALL: 7

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