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Liverpool are still being dogged by confidential team details being leaked out – despite going to the trouble of installing a privacy screen at Melwood.

Boss Jurgen Klopp has been using the 4.5metre high curtain for certain closed training sessions in a bid to keep his starting line up secret. However, it continues to be widely circulated on social media sites up to 24 hours before matches.

Anfield officials are fully aware of a long-standing problem which hands opponents the advantage of knowing exactly who they will be facing and are desperate to plug the leaks.

It was a source of such frustration for former manager Brendan Rodgers that midway through last season he urged the club to build a privacy screen.

Rodgers believed that information was being picked up by supporters peering over the walls of the training ground in West Derby to watch sessions when the manager was working on the team’s shape. There were also issues with onlookers filming training.

As a result back in January, Liverpool applied to Liverpool City Council to put up a screen around one of the pitches next to Melwood Drive and Crown Road.

Planning permission was granted in April and extensive building work to install the green structure of supporting posts with a curtain on rails was finally completed in October.

Most Premier League training complexes are in a private and secure environment away from prying eyes but Liverpool don’t have that luxury. Supporters regularly use bins, cars or ladders to look over the walls, while the training pitches are also overlooked by houses.

However, the fact that even with the screen now in place team line ups are getting out the day before matches suggests that the leaks are coming from someone within the club rather than snooping fans.