Eberechi Eze is still injured by a torn Achilles tendon that he suffered during training in May this year.
It is still unknown when he is expected to play again for Crystal Palace due to the nature of the injury and he remains out of his squad for the Premier League opener in Chelsea on Saturday 14 August.
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Eberechi Eze, Crystal Palace signing for summer 2020, returns unknown due to injury
Eze came to the Palace last summer, joined from QPR for a £ 16 million fee and has since made 34 Premier League appearances since then.
His injury came just before his call-up to the England team for Euro 2020 and the extent of the injury that left his teammates, including Andros Townsend, in tears.
Andros Townsend recalls Eze’s injury during training with horror
“He fell to the ground,” Townsend told talkSPORT.
“He thought someone kicked him, we all think someone kicked him because it sounded like that, when he turned around and realized there was no one around him, the commotion started to set in like you know what it is.
“The shock on his face when his Achilles tendon was torn, haunts me when I go to sleep at night thinking about this young player who is probably my closest partner in the club since he joined, we have really helped each other, for him to have such a serious injury is really sad.
“As soon as he walked into the locker room and switched on his phone, he got a message from England saying he was on the provisional squad. That compounded their misery and many of us were crying. It was a sad day. “
Eze told talkSPORT.com in 2019 that he almost gave up on football before his big break at QPR.
Eze soon showed his talents in the Championship before moving to the Palace in 2020.
He said: ‘When I was initially released [by Millwall] I was not too depressed, as there were many clubs interested in me.
“But after being rejected by some of them, that’s when it really started to affect me. I was getting a bit worried, all I ever wanted to do is be a professional footballer.
“So I was thinking about plan B and potentially going to college or college, and then QPR came along and gave me my big break, for which I will always be eternally grateful.”
Palace faces Chelsea at Stamford Bridge to open their new Premier League season before hosting Brentford the following weekend.
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