Jurgen Klopp has revealed that ­Liverpool rejected Manchester City’s offer of a Champions League training base because it was made too late.

Klopp’s team will do all of their preparation on Merseyside for ­Tuesday's quarter-final second leg, after he complained last week that he had not been able to secure anywhere suitable in Manchester to train.

Liverpool would have been ­allowed to train at the Etihad ­Stadium on Monday evening under Uefa rules, but the club decided not to after having difficulties finding a pitch in Manchester on which to prepare on Tuesday morning.

Manchester United rejected an approach to use their junior ­facilities at The Cliff in Salford, where Napoli trained before their Champions League match against City in October.

Klopp also indicated that initial approaches to City had proved ­unsuccessful, but they did ­subsequently offer the use of their former first-team training ground at Carrington.

The base, which City left in 2014 for a purpose-built set-up next to the Etihad Stadium, is now rented out to League One club Bury. ­Liverpool prepared there for their Europa League last-16 tie against Manchester United two seasons ago.

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Klopp said: “We asked early and didn’t get it, but then City gave us the opportunity of Bury. We didn’t know exactly why we couldn’t go there, but then we could go.

“But we have organised ­everything for staying at home and doing things at Melwood, so that is why we haven’t changed our plans.”

Klopp and a player will travel to Manchester on Monday afternoon to carry out their press conference obligations at the City Football Academy, before travelling back to Liverpool to prepare at their Melwood ­training base.

That will allow the manager and his players to hold a pre-match tactics session behind closed doors, before the squad heads to Manchester for the quarter-final second leg, which Liverpool go into with a 3-0 lead.

It is understood that United turned down Liverpool’s request to use The Cliff, used by the club’s youth teams and for football in the community events, because it was already booked up.