Ring for Analysis: Liverpool's Multi-Club Confusion
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Two years ago, when Michael Edwards re-joined Liverpool to become CEO of Football for FSG, he did so with the recommendation that the American ownership group seek to expand their football portfolio and explore a multi-club model. But today, it seems unlikely that FSG will follow through on this expectation.
On today's episode, Joe & Jon perform Ring for Analysis, while reading through James Pearce's story on this topic, discussing what this means for Liverpool, FSG and Michael Edwards' future. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7125072/2026/03/20/liverpool-fsg-michael-edwards-future/
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Titho Football Podcast. I'm Joe Devine and I'm doing an impression of John McKenzie, doing an impression of Joe Devine. That's what you think I sound like. That's a good impression of my impression of you. Hello. It's all in the front of the mouth. Whereas actually when you speak as me, you speak a lot more towards the back of the mouth. Yeah? Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello and welcome to the Tifo football podcast. I'm Joe Devine. You have to go, I'm Joe Devine. I'm Joe Devine. I'm Joe Devine. I'm Joe Devine. And I'm sat in my back garden. I'm Joe Devine. Looking at voles and hedgehogs. The circle of life continues. |
| 0:42.0 | Anyway, nature goes on its merry way. Nature does go on its merry way. And it's marrying its way along here today, isn't it, John? Because I'm joined, of course, by John McKenzie. |
| 0:49.5 | Hello. |
| 0:50.1 | Now, welcome to our audio exclusive episode of Ring for Analysis this week. |
| 0:55.5 | Now, what is Ring for Analysis? I hear you asking, well, I'll tell you. |
| 0:59.5 | Ring for Analysis is an audio-exclusive podcast. |
| 1:02.4 | You love that phrase, don't you? |
| 1:03.5 | I do. I like saying. Also, I'm inspired by what we talked about on today's episode, where one of the quotes we sort of, we explained through the means of business speak, |
| 1:11.7 | was what was it was someone saying we need to find opportunities to find more opportunities, |
| 1:16.3 | something like that. In order to be competitive, we need to find ways of being more competitive. |
| 1:19.4 | Exactly. And for that, on that basis, the Ring for Analysis is an audio exclusive podcast |
| 1:24.1 | where we ring for analysis. Here's how it works. I read a fantastic article |
| 1:28.6 | written and published by The Athletic and John rings a little bell that sounds like this |
| 1:34.6 | when he wants me to stop and so he can do some analysis and we chat about it. And today's article |
| 1:41.1 | has this headline, John. What now for FSG, a frustrated Michael Edwards and Liverpool question mark? |
| 1:49.9 | And this article was published by James Pearce on March the 20th. |
| 1:55.4 | And again, if I had that, oh, there is a website. |
| 1:57.6 | There is a website. |
| 1:59.1 | Now, isn't this fun? |
| 2:00.5 | So I've been saying on Ring for Analysis that if I knew what time the article was published, |
| 2:05.6 | I would always say. |
| 2:07.6 | And someone in our very, a very kind person in our fantastic TIFO Discord community, |
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