Liverpool Football club are planning to build big privacy screens around their training ground Melwood, according Liverpool Echo.
The manager Brendan Rodgers is furious with the starting line-up of Liverpool getting leaked in social media around 24 hours ahead of the match and wants this to stop.
The club believes 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.
The Melwood complex currently features a number of vantage points for supporters to watch and film the training sessions, the club wants this to come to an end.
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.
Minimal raising of the screens means that there will be little impact on local residents while it also will allow space sufficient light onto the training ground for the grass to grow.
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 is facing a difficult time and wants to save his job, and the team getting leaked ahead of the match, is the last thing the Northern Irishman wants.