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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…
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In-Depth Transfer Analysis Part IV: Benítez
in By Paul Tomkins, Featured, Subscribers Only, Transfer Debate, Transfer Price Index © / / 36 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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Transfer Analysis Part III: Houllier
in By Paul Tomkins, Featured, Subscribers Only, Transfer Debate, Transfer Price Index © / / 8 commentsBy Paul Tomkins. To read Part I: Souness, click here. To read Part II: Evans, click here. The rest to…
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In-Depth Transfer Analysis Part II: Roy Evans
in By Paul Tomkins, Featured, Subscribers Only, Transfer Debate, Transfer Price Index © / / 38 commentsBy Paul Tomkins. To read Part I: Souness, click here. The rest to follow as the week unfolds. Roy Evans…
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In-Depth Transfer Analysis Part I: Souness
in By Paul Tomkins, Featured, Subscribers Only, Transfer Debate, Transfer Price Index © / / 39 commentsBy Paul Tomkins. Every day this week I’ll be looking at the transfer records of each Liverpool manager during the…
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Liverpool FC Transfer Analysis, 1992-2015
By Paul Tomkins. All next week, in a daily series for TTT subscribers only, I shall be analysing the buying…
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Firmino, Sterling and Transfer Strategies
By Paul Tomkins. Roberto Firmino, currently shining for Brazil at the Copa America, becomes the first “wow” signing of Liverpool’s…
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Killing the Myth of Buying Prior PL Experience
in By Paul Tomkins, Editor's Pick, Featured, Subscribers Only, Transfer Debate, Transfer Price Index © / / 75 commentsPaul Tomkins. With Liverpool having just signed James Milner and Danny Ings on free transfers (the latter with some kind…
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Pounds, Sterling and Dunces
By Paul Tomkins. Raheem Sterling’s agent, Aidy Ward, is doing his level best to take the spotlight off the performance…
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This Is What Will Happen This Summer!
By Paul Tomkins. Based on the law of averages, you will find that certain things happen more or less every…
