Arne Slot confirms when Alexander Isak will return for Liverpool from injury

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"The question is what you mean around 'being ready'."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."But I expect that I can use him for minutes. You don't, after one training session, play 45 minutes or 90 minutes."If we want to play a game [during the international break], we will have to ask if three-versus-three is possible.

We have the Under-21s team but Alex is not yet ready to play in the international break. If he would have been, he would have been with Sweden."It is 100% sure fans will see the best of him next season and we are trying to make sure that we will see close to the best or the best of him this season."I am just as excited as the fans to have him back because I think it is fair to say that 90% 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."So that everyone is excited, apart from the fact that he was so good at Newcastle, I can understand it.

I don't want to downgrade it too much because I think he can have an impact when he is back [this season]."But if you tell me it is more realistic to expect that next season from him than against Man City or PSG - I don't think he is available for Man City (FA Cup quarter-final on April 4) by the way - but we will use him in the upcoming two months. Not only with Alex but also with other players in the past."We can always arrange a friendly and if we think it is necessary for him to play a game then we would definitely do that but if it was so simple that we play him in one game and then he is the player from the final last season again then that would be nice."But we also have pre-season and maybe he can also do one week there and say 'okay, let's start to play'.