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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp confirmed that Joe Gomez had made his long-awaited return to training, while revealing that Trent Alexander-Arnold, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Xherdan Shaqiri had all made significant progress on their own path. back.
The English international Gomez has been unavailable for three and a half months after a fractured lower leg during the Premier League match against Burnley in December, but resumed training on Tuesday.
While admitting that the 21-year-old still had some work to do, Liverpool boss Klopp confirmed that Gomez was about to return to the first team.
He told the Liverpool club's official website: "That's good, Joe is no longer injured and he is almost fit.
"He will not participate in the training of the afternoon because he has to do something else. He must work on his stamina. It's like that and the boys should always do it, as Ox had to do when he was finally back to workout.
"After a long time, I think Joe has been away for 15 weeks, which is long, so he needs to rebuild the basics for the rest of the season."
The former Arsenal star, Oxlade-Chamberlain, is also getting closer to his return before the end of the season, after suffering a "small setback" in the U23 clash in Liverpool against Derby on March 8th.
Klopp added: "I spoke to him a second ago, Ox is positive, we all are, it's a small setback, not more, but it's a setback.
"We're careful of course, he's working, he's doing a lot and I think he's going to be training in a week again, and then he'll be fine."
In a more positive news for the Reds in the lead-up to a series of crucial Premier League and Champions League matches, Alexander-Arnold and Shaqiri confirmed that they were overcoming the injuries that prevented them from playing abroad last week.
The manager of the Reds revealed: "Trent still feels his back, we are not 100% sure, so we have to watch him. [be] 100 percent, but you have to see.
"J & # 39; hope [between] tomorrow and Thursday, he can resume training and everything will be fine. "
Klopp added: "Shaq, since a few weeks [ago], had some problems with the groin. He had been training, not how he could train, but he was still part of the team because we did not have many options. Now he feels better day after day and should be fine for the weekend. "
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