Liverpool fans peer over the wall to watch a training session at the club's Melwood training complex in Liverpool, northern England, April 7, 2009. REUTERS/Phil Noble/File Photo
(Reuters) - English Premier League side Liverpool announced plans on Wednesday that will see the first team leave their long-time training base in Melwood and move to a redeveloped site in Kirkby, where their youth academy is located.
Melwood, the training ground of some of the biggest names in English football since the late 1950s, including Kenny Dalglish, Ian Rush, Robbie Fowler, John Barnes and Steven Gerrard, has also been earmarked for redevelopment.
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