Liverpool enter talks to buy back Melwood to serve as a training base for their women's team

Liverpool have entered into negotiations about buying back their historic Melwood training base to use as a base for their women's team.

The Anfield club made a hugely controversial decision in the summer of 2019 to sell the headquarters with which they were synonymous to housing developers Torus in a deal that Sportsmail understood to be in the region of £10million.

Liverpool moved to a new base in Kirkby two years ago. Torus were anxious to be true to the club's heritage and struck a deal with former players Jamie Carragher and Robbie Fowler in May 2021 to have their respective Academies based at Melwood, which is based in the West Derby area of the city.

Torus, however, have yet to begin building on the plot and there is now a possibility that Liverpool will return to the facility.

It would be a huge boost for the women's team, who returned to the WSL Premier League at the beginning of this season. They currently train across the River Mersey at Tranmere's Solar Campus.

A spokesperson for Liverpool said: 'Liverpool FC is continuing to evaluate a number of sites for a possible new training ground for LFC Women.

'The project team has not yet made a final decision on a preferred site but will update supporters as soon as it is possible to do so.'