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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…
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Liverpool FC and the January Transfer Window
By Chris Rowland. ‘You can’t get value in the January transfer market’. It’s a Quoted Football Fact. Like 4-4-2 is…
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Round-Up: Summer Transfer Window 15/16
Jim White Day is over. The transfer window has ‘slammed shut’. ‘War chests’ and ‘transfer kitty’s’ have been spent. Sky…
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Liverpool FC’s Big Experiment – A Season Preview
By Paul Tomkins. In this in-depth article, which is a kind of 2015/16 preview, I will look to answer some…
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Beefing Up and Bullying: Benteke To LFC
By Paul Tomkins (5’10”). Philippe Coutinho is 5’7”. Nathaniel Clyne is 5’9”. Roberto Firmino is 5’11. Alberto Moreno is 5’7”.…
