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Samed Yesil should return to Liverpool’s Under 21 side within the next month after fighting back from his double cruciate ligament injury hell.

The 20-year-old German youth international ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament for the second time in a year in January 2014 while training at the Academy.

He had only returned to training the previous October after eight months out after damaging his cruciate ligament on international duty with Germany.

Yesil has made two first team appearances for the Reds – featuring in the League Cup win over West Brom in September 2012 and the defeat to Swansea the following month in the same competition.

Liverpool U21s manager Michael Beale told the ECHO: “Samed’s obviously had two terrible injuries and he’s come back, and it’s just the little niggles that go around it now, getting his body right.

“It’s very much the same with Marc Pelosi. I’d be really disappointed if we don’t see him on the pitch in the next month playing and that again.

“Samed, over the Christmas period, was looking really, really good and then unfortunately football sometimes just kicks you when you’re already down, sometimes football can be really cruel.

“So let’s just hope for the best, his finishing in training has been right up there with the best, he hasn’t lost his touch.

“So I assure the fans that when he does get back you’ll see him scoring goals.”

Yesil cost the Reds £1million from Bayer Leverkusen in August 2012 where he had earned the nickname “Gerd” among his colleagues in the youth ranks because his finishing prowess was likened to German legend Gerd Muller.

A series of impressive performances at the U17 World Cup in 2011 had brought the Dusseldorf-born player to wider attention.