Tuesday Mar 25 2008 13:34
Finnish veteran Jari Litmanen has returned to full training with Fulham, with Cottagers boss Roy Hodgson remaining hopeful that the forward could feature this season.
The 37-year-old one-time Liverpool star has yet to play for Fulham, having joined the club in the January transfer window to try and help the Cottagers avoid relegation from the Premier League.
Hodgson told the club's official website: "I'm delighted to have Jari around. He's certainly not match fit but he might just get there.
"When Jari is mechanically fit he's never far away from being match fit. He keeps himself very fit.
"When Finland played Azerbaijan he hadn't played for a football team for five months. He'd not done one training session outside of the Finnish national team and he played 90 minutes.
"He's contracted until the end of the season and then we'll take a further assessment of the situation and talk to him again.
"Who knows, maybe he'll be fit and we'll like what we see and want to keep him for next season."
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