Arne Slot confirms Isak will be fit for Liverpool’s trip to PSG next month

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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 months out. But I expect I can use him for minutes.“Exactly what I get from that I cannot tell you because he hasn’t trained with the team even once.

If we wanted to arrange a game it would have to be three-v-three because we only have Federico [Chiesa], Curtis [Jones] and Joe [Gomez] available [the rest of the first-team squad are in recovery after Galatasaray]. If he would have been, he would have been with Sweden.”Isak needed several months to get up to speed in the autumn having missed pre-season at Newcastle to force his move to Anfield.

“I am just as excited as the fans to have him back because it is fair to say that in 90% of our games we’ve had more chances than the other team,” said Liverpool’s head coach. “If we had one of the best strikers in the world playing then that would have usually meant that we would have had more points.“I don’t want to downgrade it too much because I think he can have an impact when he is back, but it is more realistic to expect [100%] from him next season than against Manchester City [in the FA Cup] or PSG.