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

Hello it's Paul Weelock and welcome to your latest podcast on the Blood Red channel.

Now we know Liverpool are in a very good place on the pitch.

One look at the Premier League table will tell you that.

But the recent release of the club's annual accounts show the Reds are also in a very good place away from the pitch as well.

For the 2017-18 season, Liverpool posted a record-breaking pre-tax profit of 125 million

pounds and while that figure owed much to the proceed of Philip Cattino's sale to Barcelona,

the special guest of this podcast explains why that figure underlines the huge strides

Liverpool continue to make off the field.

Kid and McGuire is a leading football finance expert and a lecturer in the subject at the

University of Liverpool and as well as the impressive annual accounts we talk the

FSG policies that are really beginning to reap dividends, why Liverpool

have now surpassed two of their top six rivals, why it was a quiet transfer window,

and what the Reds can expect as they get set to negotiate a new money-spinning kit

deal.

Enjoy and we'll be back on Wednesday with Peter Hooten's

Ale La Rouge podcast.

The Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo.

Well, hi, Kevin, I hope you're well mate and back on your feet again because the last time we spoke you just had an operation. You're doing okay?

Yeah, I'm capable of walking, not doing too much running but yeah we're getting there

slow progress but God bless the NHS definitely totally agree with that well excuse the

terrible pun but certainly looks to be in good health on the field where the

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