Is Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain making his first appearance soon?
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Oxlade-Chamberlain suffered an ACL injury last year May in Liverpool's Champions League semi-final clash with Roma and has been ruled out since then.
The Liverpool £40m signing from Arsenal was expected to return late or miss the whole of this season's action following his knee-ligament damage.
But a recent video released has shown the midfielder training with his team mates in Dubai, which is the first time he's spotted training on a pitch with a ball after working so hard at the gym to boost his recovery.
And Jurgen Klopp is confident the 25-year-old will soon return to action but urged fans to be calm when he struggles to adapt.
Klopp told Liverpoolfc.com: "I loved it like the fans loved it, if they loved it. It is just brilliant. I didn't lie, I said when you see him moving it is just unbelievable, he looks completely fine. The situation is now that we have to build endurance.
"What they did so far, it makes sense. You do the things to make sure the knee is again at 100 per cent. That's obviously the case and that's good, but from that moment on then you need time to adapt to the intensity of the game and that will take a while.
"But I pretty much can't wait until we can involve him, at least for [a few] minutes. It is so nice.
"He had hard times in the year – and in the end it pretty much will be a year – but he dealt with it in an impressive way, to be honest.
"Still, everyone knew he had a hard time, but since five or six weeks [ago] you can see he sees the end, the light at the end of the tunnel, and that gave him a massive boost, gives us a massive boost, so now it is really close."