Liverpool are pressing ahead with plans to merge their first-team and Academy set-ups.
The wheels have been set in motion for an all-encompassing approach which will spell the end for the Reds’ half-century association with Melwood.
Expanding the West Derby site, which has been the club’s training ground since 1950, is not feasible due to a lack of space in the residential area.
Jurgen Klopp hinted in July that talks had already begun about the possibility of fusing Liverpool’s senior and youth set-ups.
According to the Daily Express, Anfield officials are in favour of incorporating the senior squad with the club’s youth centre of operations in Kirkby.
However that will be subject to feasibility studies, as will other potential locations.
Previously Liverpool’s youngsters and first-team both trained on the same site at Melwood for decades prior to the opening of the Academy in 1998.
Relations between the two departments, separated by six miles, subsequently became strained during the tenures of Gerard Houllier and Rafael Benitez.
As a result, the number of players graduating into the senior ranks diminished significantly compared to its most recent heyday during the mid 1990s.
Klopp’s attempts to revive the production line between Kirkby and Anfield has seen a number of players handed debuts during his first 12 months in charge.
They included Trent Alexander-Arnold and Ovie Ejaria, who both starred in Tuesday’s EFL Cup last 16 win over Tottenham.
Liverpool will host Leeds United in the last eight of the competition, which will take place on the week commencing November 28.