Liverpool chief executive, Ian Ayre, has admitted players using social media has become 'a problem' following Mario Balotelli's controversial tweets from last week.
The Italian was charged by the Football Association on Friday with an 'aggravated breach' of its rules regarding a recent post on social media.
Balotelli reposted an image of computer game character Super Mario on Instagram earlier this week, which included the words 'jumps like a black man and grabs coins like a Jew'. He apologised for any offence caused, but could now faces a ban.
"Given the choice we'd love to keep all our players away from social media because it really is a problem," Ayre told BBC Radio Five Live's Sportsweek.
"I can honestly say there isn't any more we could do as a club to try to educate our players around this, but it still rears its head at least once a season - probably at every club in some form or another."
Balotelli is currently side-lined with a groin injury and according to Ayre footballers these days have too much time on their hands especially when injured.
"One of the problems that all footballers have had for many a year is that they have too much time to kill," he added.
"In that downtime they seem to put these crazy sort of messages up. It is definitely an issue.
"I don't think we have got to the point where we would stop people doing it, but we certainly have a very stringent policy that all of our players sign. If they step out of line then we punish them."
Liverpool is currently in ninth place in the Premier League and are five points off the fourth place spot.
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