Of all the sights that will emerge from day one of Liverpool's pre-season schedule, few will be as pleasing as seeing 18-year-old Stefan Bajcetic back in action.
The teenager missed the final two-and-a-half-months of the Reds' 2022/23 campaign after sustaining a stress response in his abductor. Cruelly, the unfortunate news came just days before he was primed to start against Real Madrid in the second leg of the Reds' Champions League round-of-16 tie.
Despite heading into the clash in the Spanish capital 5-2 down due to events at Anfield some three weeks earlier, a start a the history-draped Santiago Bernabeu would have undoubtedly been the climax of the Spaniard's breakthrough campaign on Merseyside.
