Hello and welcome to the latest Liverpool Blood Red podcast it's a very special

podcast this week because we have with us the sports editor of the Echo Dave

Apprentice.

Does that make a special?

Yes it's always special when you're a apprentice.

Also we've got our full-time Liverpool reporter both Home and Away, James Piers,

and our LFC editor Andy Kelly.

James, the main story this week is not to do with anything on the pitch, it's been stuck off the pitch, hasn't it?

Certainly has, yeah. I think quite a surprise development really with Michael Edwards being

promoted to the role of sporting director. You know, it's been a meteoric rise for him when you think he was brought in by Damien Kamole five years ago as an analyst and

Since then his stock has risen sharply and with FSGG, he's earned the trust of the senior executives at the club.

His responsibilities have grown.

Obviously he was head of technical performance and then technical director and now you know he now finds

himself in a position where it's you know he's effectively the head of all football

operations so it's it's interesting. I think obviously it's a structure that F. S. G. I've always wanted.

It's the one they had initially when they brought Kamole in. It's the one they would have turned to again in the summer of 2012 if they hadn't been

talked out of having a sporting director by Brendan Rogers and I think crucially it's a

structure that Jogan clock wants it's what he always had at Dormand.

So he has been very influential in Michael Eberts's appointment and they've had a very close

working relationship over the last 12 months and he obviously thinks these are the perfect man for the job going forward

Andy it's heard to say there'll be a lot of supporters who you'll see the appointment see the name and go who is it is it a case, there'll be some journalist as well actually.

Is it a case of perhaps the supporters having to put their trust not only in

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