‘A brand new period begins’ – Liverpool open new £50m state-of-the-art AXA Coaching Centre after leaving Melwood

Liverpool have formally opened their new £50million coaching floor in Kirkby.

The state-of-the-art complicated is named the AXA Coaching Centre and replaces their Melwood base, which housed Liverpool gamers for 70 years.

The brand new growth contains three full-size pitches, goalkeeping and warm-up areas, together with two gyms, a sports activities corridor, pool, hydrotherapy complicated and specialist sports activities rehabilitation suites.

The health club is thrice the dimensions of the Melwood one, whereas the medical areas are twice as huge.

And the door resulting in the first-team suite is hilariously known as ‘The James Milner Door’.

Liverpool shared a video of the brand new coaching complicated with the caption: ‘A brand new period begins’.

Final week, Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher paid an emotional tribute to Melwood.

He instructed talkSPORT: “It was mainly a large number when Invoice Shankly got here in 1959 and revolutionised it.

“It has to maintain progressing and shifting ahead, however it wasn’t till individuals began sharing tales that I received emotional.

“It was like being a child once more, I went there for the primary time in 1987 as a nine-year-old and I used to be there ever since.

“The recollections and the issues that I went via. I bear in mind David Beckham scoring a free-kick after I was within the A workforce!

“Enjoying within the well-known employees video games, the employees by no means misplaced a recreation in 70 years. In the event that they have been getting crushed, they simply stored on taking part in till they received.

“It could be subsequent purpose wins and in the event that they couldn’t discover it, they’d begin dishonest.

“It was at all times an amazing mentality, it was about successful, successful has at all times been the most important factor at Liverpool.

“I’ve received nice recollections there, I’m sorry to see it go, however the place they’re shifting to can be pretty much as good as something in world soccer.

“It’s nice to see all the photographs and recollections. I really like the place.”