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Liverpool 'believe plans to furlough staff were leaked by Premier League rival'

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Liverpool reportedly believe their plans to furlough around 200 non-playing staff were leaked by a Premier League rival. The Reds faced a huge backlash after announcing at the weekend that they planned to use the Government's job retention scheme to pay workers while there is no football due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Liverpool then performed a U-turn on Monday after they were heavily criticised by former stars such as Jamie Carragher, Stan Collymore and Dietmar Hamann.

The Premier League club had announced pre-tax profits of £42million for 2018-19 back in February, and were slammed for planning to use taxpayers' cash to pay 80% of employees' wages, while topping up the remaining 20% themselves.

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