Alexander Isak is set to return to Liverpool team training this week.
Isak struggled to make a meaningful impact as the Premier League champions’ record signing before suffering a fractured fibula in December.
But the Swedish striker made tangible steps towards his recovery by training separately to the Reds’ squad prior to the March international break.
Arne Slot forecast Isak would be back in contention for a squad place ahead of the Champions League quarter-final first leg against Paris Saint-Germain.
The Dutchman confirmed that he will line up alongside his teammates at the AXA Training Centre ahead of the FA Cup quarter final with Manchester City.
He said: “I think Alex is in a really good place because Sweden qualified for the World Cup yesterday evening and apart from that he’s going to train with the group again for the first time tomorrow.
“If you’ve worked so hard for three, four months or something like that and then to return to team training, that’s for everyone very nice.
“So Alex is, in that sense, in a good place.
“Of course it’s only his first session, after three or four months [out], with the team but it’s good to have him back because we all know who we signed and we’ve signed an incredible striker.
“To have him again in a team that’s usually generating quite a lot chances – and maybe not immediately from the first moment that he can start – but to have him back for the last two months is, I think, very helpful for us.”