EMRE CAN returned to Liverpool training ahead of what is set to be his final game for the club.
The German midfielder has missed the last two months of action with a back injury but is set to be in the squad for Liverpool’s Champions League final against Real Madrid on Saturday.
And he will be hoping to go out in a blaze of glory before sealing his five-year deal to Italian giants Juventus.
Can’s contract at the Reds expires at the end of the season and the Old Lady have reportedly offered a lucrative contract to bring the 24-year-old to Turin.
Juventus’ director of football Giuseppe Marotta has already confirmed that they will announce the deal after the Champions League final.
Liverpool’s medical team will assess Can’s fitness tomorrow and when Klopp was further quizzed on the player’s future he added: “I really don’t know. It doesn’t matter right now.
“What matters is that he’s 100% here.”
But Can will hoping his last involvement in a Liverpool shirt will lifting the famous European trophy as he joined his team-mates in being put through their paces before taking on Cristiano Ronaldo and co.
Klopp put his side through a series of exercises at Anfield and morale looked high among the group as they were snapped joking and laughing.
£75million defender Virgil van Dijk was wearing in a pair of personalised boots that he is set to show off in Kiev.
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Inscribed on the boots are the words “Kyiv 26 May 2018” and he will be hoping to keep them as a piece of memorabilia if the Reds can get over the line in Ukraine.
Liverpool fans will be relieved that their attacking trio of Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino are all fit to be unleashed against Real’s defence.
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James Milner is also fit having recovered from a knock that saw him ruled out of the last Premier League match of the season.
One notable absentee from training was coach Peter Krawietz, or known as ‘The Eye’ by Klopp.
Krawietz has struggled to overcome illness so was back at the club’s Melwood training complex in minimise the risk of it spreading.
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