This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.

Hello and welcome to the latest exclusive podcast for members of our Blood Red Club. You might have seen the thread on

Twitter from Swiss Ramble that was posted on Monday morning of this week explaining

Liverpool's current financial situation why they didn't spend as much as what some people might have wanted this summer, and plenty more.

If, like for me, it was far too complex for you to properly understand, or you haven't seen it yet,

or aren't on social media, there's plenty of pieces that are business of

football writer Dave Powell has written for the Liverpool echo this week off the

back of it and we'll have some more across Liverpool.com as well over the next couple of

days.

In addition to that, we've also got Dave on the show for you this week to go through a few of those things

in a little bit more detail too.

So here it is, my chat with our business of football writer Dave Powell.

The Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo.

Dave, thanks for joining me.

I suppose the first thing to say really is that the purpose of this

podcast is more to review the business model, give people the facts and let

them make their decision.

We're not here to sort of pass judgment one way or the other on FSG, which I suppose is probably

quite easy to do certainly on social media and stuff like that.

Yeah, I mean it's a business model which comes under intense scrutiny,

especially after last season.

And I think kind of January's lack of spending

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