Arne Slot makes admission amid Alexander Isak selection dilemma

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With Alex, it will still take a bit of time but he will end up being the player he was at Newcastle if we get him fit. But for him to get there, he might need to have minutes where you could argue that another player might be further ahead of him in terms of match fitness." Pressed on why he is so sure that Isak will rediscover the form that he displayed for Newcastle, Slot said: "Or how he was at Sociedad or all the other clubs he was at – he just needs to become fit.

Alexander Isak has missed Liverpool's last five games through injury (Image: Getty Images) "It is underestimated, so much, that if you bring a player in on September 1, when the league is already three weeks in. You can do that in pre-season because you don't care about the results.

That is the challenge with him. I can see in training sessions, if he is fully rested, then you can see his quality.