Jesse Marsch hopes to see Leeds United skipper Liam Cooper resume full training with his teammates next week after an encouraging week so far. Cooper missed all five of Leeds’ pre-season friendlies with a minor but niggling Achilles injury and was forced to sit out of training during the club’s tour of Australia.
The centre-back was given the green light to take to the turf once more on Monday to train on his own and after making progress, Marsch is hopeful of seeing him in full training sooner rather than later. The head coach has officially ruled Cooper out of this weekend’s clash with Wolves, but he shouldn’t miss too much more action.
“Liam Cooper has had an Achilles issue from his off-season programme from running on a treadmill,” Marsch said. “It’s taken him a long time to get back into training but this week he has been on the pitch doing individual work, finally.
