jon flanagan will speak to liverpool about a new contract in the summer .
the injury , sustained just before the start of the season , was not thought to be serious at the time but flanagan has not played a minute of first-team football in 11 months .
he has been back in training now for a while now but is thought to be some way away from being ready for first-team action - though he did play 31 minutes of the recent steven that he was named on roy hodgson 's standby list .