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It is the Anfield rap, Neil Atkinson with Carl Koppak, John Gibbons and

Gareth Roberts with you.

In the week preceding the start of the Premier League season.

There's a lot going on in a number of different places.

There's obviously transfers and we're going to come on to talk about the financials after the Swiss

Rambles put out there what he's put out there.

It's noticeable that it's come out in the last hour or so that two Manchester City players have tested positive for COVID-19. That will obviously have knock-on effects in general for the season. More footballers are testing positive for at the

moment all of this we're going to pull into a little bit of a tapestry for this

one for this show right now where we are going to talk about that Swiss

Ramble thread on Twitter and if you haven't seen it do check it out.

He is excellent and worth paying attention to. If you are interested in this sort of thing and I think this is almost the start

point for the conversation, Gareth, I don't want to get into line by line going through the Swiss

Ramble thing in that there's a lot of in-depth financial stuff within it and that's sort of the

points that's not really what we all get into football for but the way this summer's taking a turn going right the way back to

Hicks and Gillette however long ago when we all started to understand what leveraged buyouts are.

Unfortunately this sort of these bits and pieces have actually become part of a

strand of Liverpool fandom and a strand that flares up whenever games aren't

playing whenever there are other things to focus on.

Yeah, it does stem from Hicks and Gillette.

It stems from a time when we thought we were lied to,

when we thought that, you know, we had a set of owners who didn't know,

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