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 bottom line podcast from the Blood Red channel with

myself Matt Addison and our business of football writer Dave Powell.

Liverpool have this morning announced their financial accounts with the impact of

the pandemic becoming clear. We're here with all of the analysis of the pandemic becoming clear.

We're here with all of the analysis of what we know so far and what might still be to come.

The figures released up to May 2020, so this season is not covered covered the pandemic only accounts for three months in these

and there will have been another 12 months or so to factor in with COVID in the next

accounts which will come out this time next year.

Let's start Dave by sort of picking apart the headline figures that the club

have announced.

Let's go into a little bit of detail really on each of the three main strands of the accounts and sort of the

bottom line if you like to take the title of this podcast for what all of that

means. So yeah it's unsurprisingly this has been a year of heavy losses for the

Liverpool in terms of seeing their revenues decrease as we've seen across the

board from clubs having no fans in, having to pay a rebate back to the broadcasters

for what happened during Project Restart, all these things are taking their toll. As you said at the top of the program, all we've got so far is this takes into account

a very short period of kind of a COVID-affected finances.

I mean, it won't be till next year where we see the true

extent, but what it does show is this media revenue is down 59 million to

2002 million. Match day revenue, a 13 million hit down to 71 million.

And commercial revenue was somewhere where they did see an uptick of 29 million

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