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Paul Tomkins
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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Paul Tomkins
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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Paul Tomkins
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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Paul Tomkins
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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Paul Tomkins
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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Daniel Rhodes
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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Krishaldo
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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Paul Tomkins
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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Paul Tomkins
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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Daniel Rhodes
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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Paul Tomkins
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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Daniel Rhodes
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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Chris Rowland
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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Chris Rowland
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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Krishaldo
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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Paul Tomkins
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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Paul Tomkins
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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Chris Rowland
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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Graeme Riley
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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Paul Tomkins
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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Paul Tomkins
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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Paul Tomkins
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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Paul Tomkins
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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Paul Tomkins
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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Paul Tomkins
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…