Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says Alisson Becker is ready to return.

The Brazilian keeper has been sidelined for seven weeks with a calf tear he suffered as the curtain came up on the new season.

But he has trained fully for the last 10 days, and has now returned to squad training, and crucially, Klopp confirmed he has done all the defensive drills with the first team.

That is the biggest hint yet that he will make his comeback against Leicester on Saturday, with the manager clearing the way when agreed he could play the keeper with no risks: “It's different for keepers, yes. Alisson has been training for 10 days, now he is in team training.

“If yesterday was his first training session, we would not have to even think about it, but I have to talk. Yesterday he trained with the team for the first time and looked really good.

“Ali has been doing all the training already for 10 days and is now team training. He has done important stuff. We could take him out of the general team stuff and do work of much higher intensity than he could do in just a five a side, so he is there."