Fulham have decided to rehabilitate striker Aboubakar Kamara with the Frenchman part of pre-season training and a plan in place to reintegrate him into the squad, lifting the club ban implemented following his arrest at the training ground in January.

The 24 year-old is with the squad for pre-season training in Portugal, and looks set to start the Championship season for the club next month, having previously looked like his career at Craven Cottage was over for good. In the midst of a relegation fight at the start of the year, he was banned indefinitely by Fulham and dispatched on loan to Turkish top-flight club Yeni Malatyaspor following his arrest for an alleged assault at Motspur Park.

It is understood that Scott Parker, the newly-installed manager at Fulham, and several members of the senior playing squad were consulted about Kamara’s potential return, including star striker Aleksandar Mitrovic. It was with Mitrovic whom Kamara was alleged to have had an argument during a squad yoga session in early January when the former was ticked off by his strike partner for not listening to the teacher.

The situation reportedly escalated after that and on Jan 21, Kamara allegedly clashed with a member of staff at Motspur Park as he sought out senior club officials to remonstrate with them over his exclusion from first-team training. At that point he had been left out of two matchday squads by then manager Claudio Ranieri and told to train with the club’s Under-23s. The Metropolitan police were called to Motspur Park and Kamara was arrested on suspicion of actual bodily harm and criminal damage.