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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”.…
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LFC Activate Benteke’s £32.5m Release Clause
By Chris Rowland and Daniel Rhodes. Christian Benteke With this breaking news: Born in Kinshasa in the DR Congo in…
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The Transfer Price Index in Euroland
in Editor's Pick, Featured, Free, In-Depth Analysis, Transfer Debate, Transfer Price Index © / / 11 commentsBy TTT Subscriber Graeme Riley. Having constructed the Transfer Price Index database several years ago, I had wanted to extend…
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Sterling for £49m? The Gamble and the Curse
By Paul Tomkins. Nominative determinism suggests that a person’s name influences their character, and even the profession they go into.…
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In-Depth Transfer Analysis: The Big Conclusion
in By Paul Tomkins, Editor's Pick, Featured, Free, Subscribers Only, Transfer Debate, Transfer Price Index © / / 73 commentsBy Paul Tomkins. To read Part I: Souness, click here. To read Part II: Evans, click here. To read Part III: Houllier, click…
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In-Depth Transfer Analysis Part V: 2010-2015
By Paul Tomkins. To read Part I: Souness, click here. To read Part II: Evans, click here. To read Part III: Houllier, click…
