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

Arne Slot confirms Isak will be fit for Liverpool’s trip to PSG next month Record signing has been injured since December Salah to miss Saturday’s league match at Brighton Arne Slot has confirmed Alexander Isak will be available for Liverpool’s Champions League quarter-final against Paris Saint-Germain as he nears recovery from a fractured leg. The £125m British-record signing has not played since 20 December and has yet to resume full training but, in a boost to Liverpool’s prospects of overcoming the European champions, he is on schedule to feature when the teams meet at the Parc des Princes on 8 April. Isak will clearly not be ready to start after almost four months out but will offer Slot an option from the bench. “He will be available,” said Slot, who will be without Mohamed Salah and Alisson for Saturday’s early kick-off at Brighton because of muscle injuries. “The question is what you mean by ‘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 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. You don’t after one training session play 45 minutes or 90 minutes. If we wanted to arrange a game it would have to be three-v-three because we only have Federico , Curtis and Joe available [the rest of the first-team squad are in recovery after Galatasaray]. 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.” Isak needed several months to get up to speed in the autumn having missed pre-season at Newcastle to force his move to Anfield. Nevertheless, Slot believes the 26-year-old can have an impact in the final months of the campaign. “I am just as excited as the fans to have him back because it is fair to say that in 90% of our games w...