No way he looks awful 
In the other photos yes in this one not so much.
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Heās really slim and as we all know, was malnourished and underweight as a lad. So it will be as nothing for him to drop back a bit if the leg needs to rest during recovery.
Obviously he has a program and is building back up again, and I canāt wait to see him in a Liverpool shirt on that pitch as he is a very good player.
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The guy is also about 2 months off coming back.
Iām glad he is able to put some weight on it at least.
We need to be patient with his rehab and if we donāt see him this season then so be it, would prefer that he is ready to fly again at the beginning of next season than for him to break down again if he isnāt ready.
We have really missed him as he was our best forward for retaining possession as well as his unpredictability
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Similar to Virg. Iād say we make players lose weight to help recovery or something. He will be back to his best shape by the time heās back
Losing muscle mass is inevitable if you canāt put weight on the leg. Short of putting them on anabolics thereās little we can do about it.
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@AnfieldWatch
NEW: Luis Diaz has been pictured in Liverpool training as he continues his recovery from a long-term knee injury. #lfc [football daily]
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About.fucking.time
NEW: Liverpool are hopeful Luis Diaz will return to full team training next week as they begin their preparations for the Premier League run-in. #lfc [ian doyle - liverpool echo]
And heās just been called up by Colombia to play 3 matches in Australiaā¦
Send Naby instead.
I knew they were going do that.
Itās two matches not three.
I blame Alex Ferguson for all this.
Ryan Giggs, fit as a fiddle for 963 Man Utd games.
Could only manage 64 Wales caps.
Such a long career with so many appearances for the club would surely be expected to yield at least double the appearances for the national team?
All those years it was going on, and we all knew the score. Alex Ferguson laid down the law. Giggs was to be fit for his team, and he would often drop out of the Wales reckoning, with this knock, or that hammy strain.
So, given how unfair all that was, the international game grew a pair. Rules were established to stop the sort of shit that Ferguson was getting away with for two decades.
However, arguably the rules now need to be refined.
Letās look at Luis Diaz. Injured by a fat arsed alleged rapist, who damaged our man in installments, making sure he landed his full weight on his knee. Appalling that the Arsenal darlings are feted, while that significant season damaging factor for us barely got a footnote.
We play the long term game, with the best interest of the player, our employee, at heart. Medical advice was to try to let it heal naturally, with rest, physical therapy, and no surgery. But then if enough progress wasnāt made in such and such a time frame, the medical advice was to move on to option B, which was surgery.
So we did surgery. All those games we lost, without such a threatening player! We were all gutted, but injury is a fact of life, and we played the long term game, nursing him back to full health, which he is now close to.
Now that we are on the cusp of seeing him return, Colombia are calling dibs. They want him in Australia. I canāt be bothered looking it up, but I thought Colombia was in another continent! Is this friendly, money-making stuff for the Colombia FA?
Either way, if they can call up their player, within the rules, they should. He is their star man, so why wouldnāt they want him on show?
So then at that point, the rules need to be better defined.
I would like to suggest something along the lines that if a player has been out injured for x months, they need y full contact training sessions with their club, and z club appearances, before being eligible to be called up again by the national team. The medical community can thrash out what is fair.
The point is that it is all in the best interest of the player, as their proper recovery is paramount in everyoneās thoughts.
My contention is that the likes of Ferguson are responsible for the complete lack of gentlemanly conduct, between national team and club team, as he shit all over a fair arrangement for two decades. So the pendulum has swung the other way, in favour of the national team, and it needs to move back a bit to make things fairer.
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Where did you hear this as this was posted on the Echo at 4pm today
Calvin Ramsay already ruled out until next season.
I missed this one. So he was injured the first months of the season and will be in the last few of that same season and in between he did not play, great ā¦ 
He played 5 times for the U21s, scoring twice and generally being the best player on the field. Heāll be fine.
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