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Liverpool buy back their old Melwood training ground for the club's women's team - having left it for Kirkby in 2020 - following protests over plans to turn it into a housing complex

Liverpool have bought back their former Melwood training ground for their women's team to use.

The men's first team vacated the site in West Derby in the city in November 2020 for a new build at their existing academy base in Kirkby.

Amid local protests, proposals were in place for the land to be turned into a modern, multi-generational housing complex by affordable housing group Torus but after the Robbie Fowler-Jamie Carragher academy moved in plans started to change, which has ultimately resulted in the club re-purchasing their former home.

As part of the move, the crest of the LFC Women's team, which has previously trained at Tranmere's base on the Wirral, will move to the official club crest to closer align the two operations.