Manager Roy Hodgson is hopeful Jari Litmanen could feature for Fulham this season after the veteran forward resumed full training.Heart problems have meant the 37-year-old Finland international has yet to play for the Cottagers, having joined the club in the January transfer window.

Hodgson told Fulham's official website: "I am delighted to have Jari around. He is certainly not match fit but he might just get there because when Jari is mechanically fit, he is 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 had not done one training session outside of the Finnish national team and he played 90 minutes.

"He is contracted until the end of the season and then we will take a further assessment of the situation and talk to him again.

"Who knows, maybe he will be fit and we will like what we see and want to keep him for next season."

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