Arne Slot offers fresh Alexander Isak return date after nightmare injury layoff

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Slot, though, believes Liverpool might see Isak at close to his best by the end of this season after the £125m man has had a negligible impact in his first season at Anfield. If you want to have the player who played exactly a year ago against us in the Carabao Cup final, and was too good for us on that day, then I would tell you I have my doubts about that after seven or eight months out.

Exactly what I get from that I cannot tell you because he hasn't trained with the team even once. "He still is not able to train with the team and he hasn't been able to train with the team and usual rehab is before you start to train with the team and then you play games.

You don't, after one training session, play 45 minutes or 90 minutes.” Alexander Isak has returned to training and could be back after the international break (Peter Byrne/PA Wire)Slot is convinced Liverpool need not worry that Isak will return to his peak at Anfield and, after often lamenting missed chances this season, feels their results would have been better had Isak been fit. I am just as excited as the fans to have him back because I think it is fair to say that 90 per cent of our games, we've had more chances than the other team, so if we had one of the best strikers in the world playing for you then that would have usually, usually, meant that you would have had more points.”