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Paul Tomkins
LFC Season Preview – Time To Go Fourth?
Read moreMy previous look at the season ahead revolved around the work we had done on the Transfer Price Index, and…
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Paul Tomkins
20 Years of LFC Transfers in 2011 Money
Read moreIn a recent article I saw reference to Stewart Downing becoming the Reds’ 4th-most expensive transfer of all-time if all…
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Paul Tomkins
How To Survive Preseason Friendlies
in Featured, Subscribers Only / / 84 commentsRead moreAhead of the issue, preseason games feel like going out with a pretty woman after a long dating drought: it…
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Paul Tomkins
What Can We Expect in 2011/12?
in In-Depth Analysis, Subscribers Only / / 101 commentsRead moreA version of this article appears in the latest edition of Well Red Magazine. I have made several additions in…
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Paul Tomkins
Do Liverpool Possess Enough ‘Magic’?
Read moreAll teams need to find the balance between attack and defence. Perhaps it’s the most crucial equation in football. Formations…
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Paul Tomkins
‘Pay As You Play’ New 2010/11 Analysis
Read more“Pay As You Play:The True Price of Success in the Premier League Era”, published last autumn, covered 1992 to 2010.…
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Paul Tomkins
Is Stewart Downing Actually Stanley Devastating?
in Free / / 322 commentsRead moreA certain player happens to have completed more successful crosses in the past three seasons than anyone else in the…
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Paul Tomkins
LFC’s Transfer Policy Explained (Hopefully)
Read moreThere seems to be a general unease – and in some cases outright panic – about what Liverpool are doing…
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Paul Tomkins
Holy Comolli, Statman! Liverpool’s Data Revolution
Read moreSome people in football get tarred with a dirty big brush early on, and struggle to rid themselves of the…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool’s Goal Involvement 2010/11
Read moreIn 2008/09, having found myself frustrated with the lack of information relating to how goals are scored – and specifically,…
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Paul Tomkins
Why I Fear For Jordan Henderson
Read moreJordan Henderson has yet to kick a football for Liverpool – even in training – and many are already writing…
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Paul Tomkins
The La Liga Transfer Targets
in Subscribers Only, Transfer Debate / / 119 commentsRead moreBy Paul Wilkes. The signing of Jordan Henderson led Damien Comolli to make these comments regarding Liverpool’s transfer strategy to…
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Paul Tomkins
New Season, New Formation?
in Subscribers Only, Talking Tactics / / 124 commentsRead moreWhile it’s wrong to try and figure out how every new signing will fit into the starting XI – after…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool FC: England’s Answer To Barcelona?
in Subscribers Only / / 182 commentsRead morePart One by Raffael Fernandes, Part Two by Paul Tomkins Introduction Barcelona are unique. Right now, everyone seems obsessed with mimicking…
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Paul Tomkins
Young, Gifted and Here: Liverpool’s Long Game
in Subscribers Only / / 864 commentsRead moreYoung: not Aston Villa’s Ashley, it seems, but given what we nearly ended up with last summer, thankfully not their…
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Paul Tomkins
Transfer Names Not Exciting You? Read On…
in Free, Transfer Debate / / 289 commentsRead moreWhile it’s understandable to want to be excited about Liverpool’s transfer activity, I started to wonder if our preconceptions had…
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Paul Tomkins
Transfer Views – Creative Midfielders In Focus
in Subscribers Only, Transfer Debate / / 124 commentsRead moreAs as happens every summer, Liverpool appear to have been linked with more players in the past few weeks than…
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Paul Tomkins
Giving Youth A Chance
Read moreMy motivation for writing about Liverpool has always been to give credit where it’s due, rather than where the mass…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool Are The English Winners This Week
in Subscribers Only / / 109 commentsRead moreHad Manchester United won their latest Champions League Final, the gloating from their supporters would have been excessive, and understandably…
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Paul Tomkins
‘Pay As You Play’ Wins Award
in News / / 44 commentsRead more‘Pay As You Play’, the book I co-authored with Graeme Riley and Gary Fulcher (with contributions from various other members…
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Paul Tomkins
Magical Mystery Tour: Istanbul, 2005
in Book Extract, Free / / 45 commentsRead moreTo Celebrate 'Istanbul Day', this is an extract from "Golden Past, Red Future", the book I began writing in 2004,…
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Paul Tomkins
TTT Top 5 Players of the Year
in Subscribers Only / / 104 commentsRead moreThis site, like others, has recently been running a poll for the player of the year. Everyone had five votes,…
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Paul Tomkins
Current Squads and Age-Old Issues
in Free, In-Depth Analysis / / 124 commentsRead moreLike most Liverpool fans, my thoughts turned to next season some while ago. This will be the first summer of…
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Paul Tomkins
Europa or Bust?
in Subscribers Only / / 335 commentsRead moreAfter months of positively explosive squibs, the performance against Spurs was a bit of a damp one. It disappointed because…
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Paul Tomkins
Dalglish and Clarke: The Formula is Complete
Read moreEven though I spent November and December 2010 pushing for Kenny Dalglish to be given the caretaker’s role – using…