Posted by Paul Tomkins on June 18th, 2013
By Paul Tomkins. This piece will be submitted to the official site tomorrow (Wednesday). As ever, it appears first for TTT Subscribers. If you ever worry about Liverpool signing a player who is not a household name, I have something for you to think about.
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By Chris Rowland. After the ‘How Did They Do?’ series, the Symposium is back. This week, we decided to pick up on a question a question asked by one of the Symposium panellists, Martin McLaughlin (Martin McL), in his post on May 21 - ‘Is there now a growing confidence that we can put faith in [...]
By Andrew Fanko (Arisesirrafa). Right, the second part of the trilogy takes us into the middle third of the pitch and probably into a few arguments over the merit of certain players. In order to even up the final two articles, Coutinho, Sterling and Assaidi are classed as forwards. NB: Remember I’m only featuring players [...]
By Chris Rowland. The 25-year-old Celta Vigo striker Iago Aspas is set to be our second confirmed addition to the squad this summer, after Kolo Toure, following the club’s confirmation that a deal is all agreed subject to paperwork. The fee is reported as £7.7m. He had offers from Valencia, Portuguese and Italian teams and Swansea [...]
By Chris Rowland. What better way to start the week than with a Merseyside derby? “Liverpool will attempt to beat Everton boss Roberto Martinez to the capture of Wigan striker Arouna Kone, 29, by making a bid for the Ivory Coast international. Kone has a £6.5m release clause in his contract.” A link that appears [...]
By Ted Knutson. Ah, the silly season. A time when we all like to play Football Manager with our favourite team, shipping out the deadwood, and buying wunderkind replacements in return. Today, I’m going to do a lot of that sort of thing, with a small twist you don’t usually get with real-world analysis. A [...]
By Andrew Fanko (TTT Subscriber Arisesirrafa) Should They Stay Or Should They Go? Goalkeepers and Defence Roll up, roll up! With another season behind us, it’s time for you to cast your annual judgement on how our squad should shape up next season. With the help of the How Did They Do? series (and hopefully [...]
By Paul Tomkins. I’m pleased to announce that we have finally put together “These Turbulent Times: Liverpool FC’s Search for Success” – a Best of TTT book. These Turbulent Times gathers together the best articles to appear on our award-winning website since its inception in 2009, covering all aspects of Liverpool FC’s fortunes in that [...]
By Various TTT Writers, Contributors and Subscribers. For the last few weeks we’ve been running a series of articles where our panel assess the performance and contribution of each player who’s made 10+ appearances this season, and give a rating out of 10. Subscribers could also vote in a poll on the site. The articles [...]
By Chris Rowland. The old warhorse finally called it a day, but not without a rather surprisingly effective swansong, given the stage he was at in his playing career. In the final part of of our series, our panellists assess how Jamie’s season went. This article is for Subscribers only.
By Chris Rowland. Another week trawling the murky waters of the world of transfer rumours – a true bottom-feeder’s existence if ever there was one. Anyway, the first news this week was Eriksen – it’s still on! Ajax coach Frank de Boer has added weight to Christian Eriksen‘s much-publicised transfer speculation, insisting the attacking midfielder is [...]
By Chris Rowland. All-time club legend he may undeniably be, but his inclusion in the team does seem to have implications on team shape, formation and optimum midfield combinations. Even Gerrard is not free from searching questions … This article is for Subscribers only.
By Bob Pearce and Mihail Vladimirov. The main conductor We talked last time about how the defence and midfield work together when out of possession. Can we switch it around now and look at how they work together when they have possession? This will be different depending on the team’s style of play. If Blue [...]
By Chris Rowland. We all got very excited when Raheem was given his day-boo so early, and looked so promising. Are we setting ourselves up for a fall, or has he got what it takes? This article is for Subscribers only.
By Chris Rowland. Unless you’ve been living in Alpha Centauri for the last few weeks, you will have seen the Premier League draw to its relatively mundane close amidst a valedictory orgy of high profile managers and players departing the scene. Fans everywhere seemed to be saying goodbye to a ‘club legend’ as they did their hand-waving, crowd-clapping, microphone speech-making [...]
By Zach Slaton. In the Premier League’s inaugural season of play the most expensive team cost £6.5 million to field, and it belonged to Liverpool. All 22 teams’ payrolls that 1992/93 season totaled £90.5 million, a sum surpassed by the individual payrolls from a quarter of the teams in the league’s 20th season. The least expensive [...]
By Chris Rowland. We’ve barely seen enough of our Italian striker to form a real opinion yet to be honest – we still don’t really know what he can do. But the bits we have seen have been largely underwhelming. And remember, this series is not about what they might become, it’s about how they [...]
By Chris Rowland. Another conundrum for us to debate. We mostly agree, he was better this season, but was he better enough? Does he have a part to play in the new future of the club? This article is for Subscribers only.
By Paul Tomkins. Before going any further, if Luis Suarez wants to leave Liverpool FC, then the only issue is one of acquiring the best possible transfer fee. Various quotes are appearing in the media, with the player’s words being analysed and different meanings construed. As I write, the latest is that he’s quoted as [...]
By Chris Rowland. Is Shelvey the one of our crop of youngsters we’d be prepared to lose? Or is there much more to come from him? Has he learnt anything, and is he capable of learning? As ever with most of our current crop of players, there’s much to consider. This article is for Subscribers [...]
By Chris Rowland. Let’s start with that rarest of species – some actual transfer news. Two players seem on their way in, Kolo Touré from Manchester City and close behind him Celta Vigo striker Iago Aspas, 25 – unless The Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Daily Telegraph, Sky Sports and the Liverpool Echo on May 30 were [...]
By Paul Grech. The name of Horst Wein is unlikely to register with many football fans. He never played the game at any level nor has he made an impact as a manager. Football isn’t even his first love, hockey is. Even so, Wein is one of the deepest and most influential thinkers within the [...]
By Chris Rowland. Our Brazilian who plays like a Brazilian has been such an instant success, the only worry is whether he can maintain such standards (or could he even improve on them?), or whether Premier League defenders will ‘work him out’, second season syndrome and all that. You can only imagine the strategy many [...]
Academy season review by Arnar Steinsson. Busy is probably the best word to describe this season at Kirkby. I don’t think that many last summer would have bet on so many youngsters from our Academy making the transition to the first team, and especially not playing as many games as Raheem Sterling in the first half [...]
By Chris Rowland. One of our better January signings, Sturridge has a very acceptable scoring record since his arrival from Chelsea. Oh how they taunted, the media and Chelsea fans and plenty of other fans when Chelsea bought proven goalscorer Ba for much less than they sold Sturridge for. Smart Chelsea, dumb Liverpool. Doesn’t look so clear-cut now who [...]
