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The Premier League’s Summer 2019 Transfer Window in Facts and Figures
in Subscribers Only, Transfer Debate / / 17 commentsAccording to Deloitte, the eighteen transfers costing £170m that were finalised on Deadline Day this summer, pushed the…
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“Liverpool Don’t Look Ready” – Preseason Anxieties Justified?
Well, let’s be clear: it’s hard to look ready when your players only finished their competitive club season in…
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To Understand Liverpool’s Past Transfers, and Summer Plans, It Might Help To Read This
With my new book (Mentality Monsters) out for almost a week now and topping the Liverpool FC chart on…
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Man City and Liverpool’s Spending – A Factual ‘Transfer Price Index’ Analysis
Despite the latest questions surrounding Man City’s troubles with UEFA and Financial Fair Play dating back to 2018, when…
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The Summer Transfer Window Takes a Bit of a Holiday (Except For Liverpool …)
The summer transfer window has slammed shut. Sort of. Deadline day, whilst providing us with a great deal of…
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2018 – Liverpool’s Best Year For Transfers … EVER? Can Reds Finally Lift Title?
It’s always wrong to think you have won the transfer window; remember Everton in 2017? But looking back, did…
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Liverpool’s Crazy Spending? The Reds’ New Elite Goalkeeper and the Challenges He and LFC Face
While he isn’t yet confirmed (and let’s hope his knees are in better shape than Nabil Fekir’s), it seems…
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Shaqiri? I’d Rather Have Shakira!
It’s an old joke, of course. Her breasts are small and humble so that you don’t confuse them with…
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Liverpool Make A Really Stupid Signing
Well, thanks a bunch, Liverpool FC. How inconsiderate can you get? Here at TTT we are scrambling to pull…
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Liverpool ARE A Selling Club. Here’s Why
The notion of a “selling club” is a bit of an odd one, given that pretty much all clubs…
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Why Would Liverpool Sell Philippe Coutinho?
For starters, there are 142,000,000 obvious reasons, although if a player wants out badly enough, there has to be…
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Rejoice! Liverpool Finally Get Van Dijk, The Ideal Signing
Two days late – if not several months late – Virgil Van Dijk is a Christmas present to us all…
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From Excess To Success: Neymar, Inflation, and the Price of an EPL Title
This article – written by Manchester United fan Laurie Shaw, who completed his doctorate at Cambridge ten years ago –…
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The Pros and Cons of Selling Coutinho
Okay, some thoughts on Philippe Coutinho, in semi-list form, based on my reading of the situation, which comes with zero…
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Shock: Transfers Now Cost More; Plus Top 100 Signings After Inflation
Last summer I wrote a piece about the psychological effect called anchoring – the discovery of which dates back to…
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Liverpool Are Already Better Than Last Season
First of all, I haven’t spent much time online this summer – a kind of football detox – and only…
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Liverpool Fans – Don’t Be So Wanky About Solanke
I don’t know all the youth players in England, but one has stood out to me since banging in a…
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Picking the Reds a ‘Transfer Target XI’ Based on the BBC Gossip Column
By Daniel Rhodes. Go on, admit it, first thing in a morning or last thing at night – depending on…
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Summer 2016/17: Transfer Window Spending Round-Up
in Free, Transfer Debate / / 41 commentsSo Jim White day has been and gone, and the flurry of activity we usually see on deadline day has…
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Anchors and Wankers: the Psychology and Reality of Transfer Prices
While the price of a Premier League footballer does indeed get further and further away from the financial realities of…
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Star-Shaped Pegs for Star-Shaped Holes
By Paul Tomkins. Last summer Liverpool signed Christian Benteke, a round peg signed for a round hole. A good player,…
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Ragnar Klavan, Becks and The Vanilla Ninjas
By Daniel Rhodes. As the news broke about the injuries to Mamadou Sakho and Joe Gomez, the journalists started tweeting…
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Fear Not: Mané the Main Man
By Paul Tomkins. It goes without saying that there’s the predictable ‘fume’ that goes with any non-superstar Liverpool try to…
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Karius the Keeper, Can He Fix It?
By Daniel Rhodes. You’ve never heard of Bob the Builder? You’ve never lived. He fixes things, and he has fun…
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Why Mario Götze Is Perfect for Liverpool FC
By Paul Tomkins. Liverpool FC haven’t signed Mario Götze, but appear to be in pole position with his time at Bayern…
