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Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has opened himself up to more scrutiny after being filmed playing a bizarre psychological game on his players.

Reds bosses have been criticised for allowing TV cameras into the club for reality TV series Being Liverpool, which is being screened in the UK by Channel 5.

And fans will be astonished by the latest episode, which will be shown this Friday.

In it, Rodgers is seen addressing an eve-of-season team meeting while holding up three envelopes.

The former Swansea boss tells his squad he has written in them the names of three players who "will let us down this season".

Captain Steven Gerrard looks stone-faced as Rodgers then tells players "don't be one of those names". Other players appear similarly baffled.

The clip was filmed the night before Liverpool opened their season with a 3-0 defeat at West Brom.

Rodgers - embarrassed when the show revealed his home featured a large painting of himself - is known for embracing new forms of man-management.

This one is a variation on a technique used by Sir Alex Ferguson after Manchester United won their first league title for 26 years in the 1992-93 season.

Fergie told his squad that he'd put the names of three players that would let them down the following season into an envelope as a means of making his squad deal with success. He admitted in his biography that there actually was no envelope.

Comment below to let us know the names of the three players you think Rodgers might have named in his envelopes.

That is, if he's actually written anything in them at all...

Being Liverpool is exclusively on Channel 5 on Friday at 9pm.