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Andrew Beasley
Assessing January’s Premier League Transfer Spending With The Transfer Price Index
in By Andrew Beasley, Statistical Analysis, Subscribers Only, Transfer Price Index © / / 27 commentsYou would think the news of a player who cost over £141m being barely used and loaned overseas would…
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Paul Tomkins
Sly Statistical Contortions To Pretend City Aren’t Way Richer Than Liverpool
in By Paul Tomkins, Free, In-Depth Analysis, Transfer Debate, Transfer Price Index © / / 47 commentsSometimes you’ll read a sentence so bad that, even when trying to take it easy for a while after…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool FC’s “FSG Boy” – My Life As A Shameless Apologist
I try to insulate myself from idiots these days. But there are different types of idiots, of course. I’m…
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Paul Tomkins
Craving Context: World’s Best Liverpool Would Be Cheapest Champions (Bar Leicester) Since 1992
If Liverpool hold onto their lead in the title race all the way through to May then, aside from…
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Paul Tomkins
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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Paul Tomkins
Jose Mourinho Falsely Slates Liverpool’s Spending – Shouldn’t He Be Worried By Bournemouth?
Here at The Tomkins Times we try not to give away too many free pieces these days as it’s not…
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Krishaldo
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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Paul Tomkins
Gross Spend vs Net Spend vs £XI. Liverpool, United, City and More
While I try to avoid running into such arguments, I see that some Man United fans began claiming that…
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Krishaldo
Comparing The Premier League To Europe, With European Transfer Price Index ©
As we all on TTT know, Paul and Graeme have done some fantastic work in their investigations into the…
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Paul Tomkins
Spending, Relative Wealth and Heritage: Guardiola No Better Than Wenger? (And Much More)
Lately a few people on TTT have been saying that they’ve had discussions with Man City fans who seem…
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Paul Tomkins
Jose Mourinho’s Moaning About Money Is Laughable (FESTIVE FREEBIE)
I don’t like to talk too much about Manchester United, especially as this site relates to Liverpool FC, but…
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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 Best Value Premier League Signings Since 1993
Way back in 2011 – when Andy Carroll was still Liverpool’s Bright Young(ish) Hope – I created ‘TPIC’ – the…
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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
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
LFC’s Likelihood of Winning the League
By Paul Tomkins. I recently worked out the cost of Liverpool’s squad and its likely strongest XI for TTT, and…
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Paul Tomkins
The 100 Most Expensive PL Players (After Inflation)
By Paul Tomkins. Before revealing the 100 most expensive players in the Premier League era – after our TPI inflation…
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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
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…
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Paul Tomkins
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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Paul Tomkins
Roberto Firmino – Much Cheaper Than You Think
By Paul Tomkins. Transfer prices increase all the time, not least when Sky suddenly pump billions more into the game…