Melwood

Curious Case of An Entitled, Performative Fanbase On 9 April 2018, on the eve of Liverpool’s second leg Champions League quarter-final against Manchester City, Jurgen Klopp stood in a room at Manchester City’s Etihad Campus after concluding with a presser.  He surveyed City’s training complex from a window, and he was clearly impressed by the rows...

Pep Lijnders says it gives him "great satisfaction" to move to the club's new AXA Training Centre with the current squad. Liverpool's departure from Melwood - their training home for 70 years - has been well-documented in recent weeks. Now, however, Lijnders is only looking forward and to the progress he hopes the club can...

Liverpool finally brought the curtain down on the club's time at Melwood over the weekend. The Reds leave their famous training ground after 70 years. When Jürgen Klopp's squad returns after the current international break, they will begin training at Liverpool's new state-of-the-art AXA training centre in Kirkby. LFC published a well-composed page with club staff,...

Liverpool defender Joe Gomez believes there is a stronger connection among the first-team squad after their return to Melwood last week. Players had been training and maintaining fitness levels in isolation with their families since March. However, Gomez feels that unavoidable separation has led to better relations among the tight-knit unit since they met back...

Jürgen Klopp was in a hugely upbeat mood yesterday as his Liverpool first-team squad returned to training at Melwood while adhering to Covid-19 government guidelines. The Reds' backroom staff had quite the task on their hands, as does every other Premier League club this week. Training had to be organised within smaller groups while following...

The rest of the matches of this year’s English Premier League was put into a halt since March 13 due to the threat that the 2019 coronavirus carries. Since then, the matches and training have all been cancelled, and everyone didn’t have a solid idea as to when it will all resume. The football fanatics...

Rhian Brewster has yet to make a senior appearance for Liverpool, but he is poised to assume an important role in a Champions League-winning squad. On his return to Melwood on Saturday, Jurgen Klopp stressed that the young forward was a key part of his plans for the upcoming campaign. It is an arrival which...

After a tiring but ultimately thrilling season, Liverpool are almost ready to go again. A number of players will return to Melwood for pre-season training next week, as preparations for another huge campaign begin for Jurgen Klopp and his staff. It's been a relatively silent summer on the transfer front so far, barring the addition of...

I’m all for the unsubstantiated transfer rumour. Football itself and certainly Twitter wouldn’t be the same without them. The incremental steps, when Liverpool is rumoured to be monitoring a player, continuing to monitor, then comes the inquiring, then considering a bid, then surprise competition comes in from a rival club, and on and on… it’s...

I know it shouldn’t be important, but it is. I know it should just be about the team, but this isn’t. I know that it shouldn’t matter who scores for Liverpool, but on this occasion it means the world. When Trent Alexander-Arnold wheeled away in celebration in Germany this week, and tried gamely to calm his mind...