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Liverpool remains on track to complete its 50 million pound Kirkby training facility by the summer of 2020.
Work has started on the club 's Academy website in 2018 and is expected to be completed next year. The Reds are planning to move their first-team stars to Kirkby before the 2020/21 Premier League season.
The Reds are moving away from their famous Melwood training base and announced Thursday they have sold the site to the affordable housing provider Torus.
In April, the first images of the new base were made public and the work in progress should allow the facility to be fully operational over the next 12 months.
Liverpool has had its current training facility in West Derby since the 1950s and announced two years ago that it had obtained a planning agreement for its redevelopment as it was preparing for its move to Kirkby.
The movement will see the first team of Jurgen Klopp based on the same site as the teams of the Academy of the club.
The departure of Melwood will mark a historic turning point for the Reds: their training ground in West Derby was turned into a first clbad facility by Bill Shankly in the 1960s and the place where all the big sides of the the most successful era of the club. perfected their skills on a daily basis.
The scale of the complex is highlighted by a series of figures published by the club.
The steel construction of the new first team and the U23 building is under construction. It includes more than 2,000 pieces of steel, weighs about 520 tons and required the installation of 2,166 cranes. It should be completed by this summer.
Nearly 2,300 cubic meters of concrete and 30,000 tons of stone have been used up to now to lay the foundation for the training complex, swimming pools and hydrotherapy, parking lots, trails and levels of the ground floor and first floor of the main training center.
The concrete began to be poured into four sections on the floor and the first floor slabs of the first team and the under-23 building – 120 cubic meters have been sunk to date to form the first sections of the ground floor. -graded, with an additional amount of 100 cubic meters. create the first sections of the first upper floor.
The next stages of development will see the laying of the first sections of exterior masonry, in order to add more detail and depth to the bones of the steel structure and to give life to the main building.
The complex, which will extend over 9,200 square meters, will be an elite performance center for the first team and first-rate facilities for the club's development teams, including new fields, two gymnasiums , a large gym, a swimming pool, a hydrotherapy complex and specialized sports. rehabilitation suites.
A landscaping around the site is also underway, which will provide shelter from the prevailing winds. Television studios, press conference facilities and office space will also be dedicated.
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