NewsPress conference: Klopp's update on Alexander-Arnold, Salah and Szoboszlai fitness

The forward resumed full training at the AXA Training Centre this week and will come into contention for the Premier League clash, with Alisson Becker, Conor Bradley, Joe Gomez and Ibrahima Konate also returning to the squad.

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The Reds will, however, be without the services of Thiago Alcantara, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Dominik Szoboszlai at Gtech Community Stadium.

Klopp told his pre-match press conference: "Mo is back in full training, [so] that brings him automatically in contention of course.

"Ibou is not suspended anymore, Joey is fit again, Conor is back, Ali is back, so that's all positive. Thiago, no. And Trent not [available], that's true."

Asked specifically on Alexander-Arnold and Szoboszlai's fitness, and whether they will be ruled out of the Carabao Cup final with Chelsea on February 25, the manager added: "How serious? Yeah, again, it's a super-intense period.

"People think about the final, which is fine absolutely, but before the final we have Brentford and Luton and I didn't think for a second about the final yet. 'He can't play the final?!' Yes, that's one game but we have before then there are two games, which is as bad that they cannot play.

"I think with Dom it will be around that time, we will see how it exactly works. And with Trent, a week or two longer. It is not great but it was not to avoid, actually, that it happened.

"I would say, I'm not sure Dom has a chance for the final but maybe, and Trent will probably be after."

Elsewhere, Klopp detailed the planning that goes into a player returning to action following injury, insisting that no-one is ever brought back ahead of schedule.

"I think we have to clarify a little bit... I was not really aware of it but I got now, somehow, the news as well there was a discussion we might have forced Trent back because two setbacks, that's true and it's really unfortunate then, nobody wants that and nobody is doing that," he said.

"But different cases, different scenarios and as long as I'm here we never forced anyone back and we will never do. We work in a high-performance area; it's like, if you [the journalist] have the same injury, you are fit after three days but the guys after four weeks because they have to sprint and stuff like this, whatever injury it is.

"It's always about that and we always try to catch the earliest moment. Unfortunately when we catch that moment, nobody speaks about it. Like with Macca, now recently with Diogo. That's a job we have to do.

"That’s pretty much all, but the last decision is then always by the player. If you would always listen only to the player then the players would play after two weeks and then it's a real problem.

"The boys were, in the moment when they played, fit but the situation told us differently because it happened again. We will never know if it would have happened anyway or it just happened because there was something before. We will never know.

"Very, very unlucky and unfortunate, absolutely. I had it a couple of times in my time as a manager, not only here. It can happen, it's not great but nothing else. It says nothing about the quality of anybody; the world we are living in [people may say], 'The medical department... I am not sure about that...' It has nothing to do with that.

"We have to bring the boys back as soon as possible but never sooner than they are ready, from our point of view."