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Paul Tomkins
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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Paul Tomkins
The Flaw of Young Keepers and Old Strikers
By Paul Tomkins The plan for 2015 at TTT Towers was to produce a second Transfer Price Index book (with…
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Graeme Riley
What a Waste of Money!
in Editor's Pick, Featured, Subscribers Only, Transfer Debate, Transfer Price Index © / / 25 commentsBy Graeme Riley. TPI – reviewing squad waste It has long been established since the publication of Pay As You…
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Daniel Rhodes
The Transfer Price Index Podcast – Part Three
Asking the questions: Bob Pearce and Daniel Rhodes. Guests: Paul Tomkins, Dan Kennett and Graeme Riley. Topics: Competitive balance, and how the league…
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Bob Pearce
Footballers, Hotel Rooms and Prostitutes
in Editor's Pick, Featured, Subscribers Only, Talking Point, Transfer Debate, Transfer Price Index © / / 43 commentsBy Bob Pearce. Footballers, Hotel Rooms and Prostitutes. They are inseparable. They are also inconsistent, intangible and perishable. Just like…
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Daniel Rhodes
The Transfer Price Index Podcast – Part Two
Asking the questions: Bob Pearce and Daniel Rhodes Guests: Paul Tomkins, Dan Kennett and Graeme Riley Topics: a review of…
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Daniel Rhodes
Podcast Special: The Transfer Price Index – Part One
Asking questions: Bob Pearce and Daniel Rhodes Guests: Paul Tomkins, Dan Kennett and Graeme Riley Topics: A snappier title? The…
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Paul Tomkins
A Decade of Big-Club Transfer Spending
in By Paul Tomkins, Editor's Pick, Featured, Free, Transfer Debate, Transfer Price Index © / / 79 commentsBy Paul Tomkins. The lack of sophistication and in-depth thought in most transfer assessments drives me to distraction. As I’ve…
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Graeme Riley
TPI & Transfers – Early Season Update 2014-15
By Graeme Riley. As the transfer window closed in early September it was possible to draw the first conclusions about…
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Paul Tomkins
Brits or Foreigners: Who Are Better Buys?
in By Paul Tomkins, Editor's Pick, Featured, Transfer Debate, Transfer Price Index © / / 28 commentsBy Paul Tomkins. A couple of years ago, with the aid of Graeme Riley’s immense database, I devised the Transfer…
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Paul Tomkins
How Chelsea Ruined Football
By Paul Tomkins. First of all, let me state that, beyond the tense rivalries of recent years, I harbour no…
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Paul Tomkins
Tomkins’ Law: Only 40% of Transfers Succeed
By Paul Tomkins. The title ‘Tomkins’ Law’ was recently assigned to my transfer theory by Dan Kennett, referring to my…
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Paul Tomkins
The Reds Have Bought Success? No Chance
By Paul Tomkins. The notion that Liverpool have bought success, as opined by the Manchester Evening News’ Stuart Brennan, is…
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Paul Tomkins
Transfer Records, and Why They Mata
By Paul Tomkins. On Saturday, Channel 4’s Economics Editor Faisal Islam tweeted: “No one ever inflation-adjusts “record” transfer fees, do…
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Paul Tomkins
Money Buys Success: the Proof You Need?
By Paul Tomkins. A handful of years ago I joined forces with Graeme Riley to create the Transfer Price Index…
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zslaton
Likelihoods From The mSq£R Model – Updated Table
in Editor's Pick, Featured, In-Depth Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Subscribers Only, Transfer Price Index © / / 9 commentsBy Zach Slaton. After what seemed like a summer that would not end, the off-season transfer window “slammed shut” last…
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zslaton
The 2013/14 Transfer Price Index (TPI) Preview
in In-Depth Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Subscribers Only, Transfer Price Index © / / 31 commentsBy Zach Slaton. By the time you read this post the data behind it will be out of date. This…
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Paul Tomkins
Rodgers, Rafa and Revolutions
By Paul Tomkins. So, what’s been happening lately? Not much? It’s obviously something of a shock to see a recent…
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Graeme Riley
TPI forecast November 2012
By Graeme Riley. At the beginning of September Zach Slaton produced a simulation of all of the results in the Premier…
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Graeme Riley
Transfer Price Index – September Preview
in Subscribers Only, Transfer Price Index © / / 11 commentsBy Graeme Riley. With the transfer window now having slammed shut and Jim White being put back into his box…
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zslaton
The Transfer Price Index Predictions For 2012/13
By Zach Slaton. Zach is a freelance soccer writer and a Tomkins Times/Transfer Price Index contributor. He currently writes for Forbes.com,…
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Graeme Riley
Transfer Price Index Update – August 2012
By Graeme Riley. With the start of the football season upon us, it is time to revisit the rankings for…
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Paul Tomkins
The Secret to Transfer Success
in Editor's Pick, Featured, In-Depth Analysis, Subscribers Only, Transfer Debate, Transfer Price Index © / / 113 commentsThe Secret to Transfer Success. Aka: The Age of Smart Transfers By Paul Tomkins. The notion that players aged between…
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Paul Tomkins
Pay As You Play – Liverpool & Rodgers
Having worked so hard with Graeme Riley in 2009 and 2010 to create the Transfer Price Index, from which we…
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Paul Tomkins
What Makes For A Good Transfer?
in Featured, In-Depth Analysis, Subscribers Only, Transfer Debate, Transfer Price Index © / / 43 commentsThere are several preconceptions about football transfers in the Premier League era, and these include the notions that English players…