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Liverpool FC are close to completing work on a privacy screen at Melwood which they hope will stop confidential team details being leaked out,

Boss Brendan Rodgers has long since been frustrated at the fact that his line up is regularly released on social media sites some 24 hours before matches.

The club believe that information is picked up by supporters peering over the walls of the training ground to watch sessions when the manager is working on the team’s shape. There have also been problems with onlookers filming training sessions.

As a result back in January, Liverpool applied to Liverpool City Council to put up a 4.5 metre high screen around one of the pitches next to Melwood Drive and Crown Road.

Planning permission was granted in April and since then extensive building work has been taking place to install it. The green structure of supporting posts around the pitch is now close to completion and in the next fortnight the privacy curtain will be put in.

The curtain will only be used for certain training sessions with the guarantees given to local residents that the screen will not be used for most of the week.

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.

Rodgers, who is fighting for his job after a miserable run of results, believes that is wrecking any element of surprise with opponents fully aware of what Liverpool side they will be facing.