Three Liverpool players have already proved Arne Slot right on Alexander Isak

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Alexander Isak is expected to make his Liverpool debut this week

Asked by Jamie Carragher on Sunday when we can expect to see Isak up to full speed with his teammates, Slot responded: "That's always difficult to say, up to full speed.

"What I can say is that normally in a pre-season, after one or two weeks you play your first 45-60 minutes, you build that up gradually.

"But that you do with proper training sessions during the week and now we hardly have any proper training sessions with the team because we play, like I just said, three games in seven days.

"So, where would he be

Second or third week of pre-season, I would say, so able to hopefully play during the week 45 minutes or more, but then two days later, as you know, we play Everton again.



We all know about Milos Kerkez’s struggles, but Florian Wirtz also found it difficult to make an impact - as did the rest of his teammates, in fairness.

Those two players though haven’t yet hit the ground running since arriving at Anfield, even with a full pre-season behind them, showing just how difficult it can be to walk straight into a new team, even with the added advantage of having played in the Premier League, as in Kerkez’s case.

As good as Isak is, there is no guarantee that he’ll instantly be a hit with Liverpool, and spending some more time getting to know his teammates couldn’t hurt, having only met the majority of them on Friday.

More importantly though, Slot is looking after Isak’s fitness, and you only need to look at Alexis Mac Allister at the moment to see why that is so important.

Granted, if the Argentine did pick up an injury on Sunday, then that was down to the reckless nature of the challenge put in on him by Lesley Ugochukwu

Nevertheless, we haven’t seen the best of Mac Allister so far this season after he effectively began his pre-season a week or two later than everyone else.

Fans will no doubt be excited to see Isak make his debut for the club this week, but they will need to be patient with him