Difficult to say without knowing how he's progressing daily but I personally have earmarked Palace at home on March 19 as a possible return date.
Seems wildly optimistic. We haven't even seen him in full training yet. You'd have to think that it would be at least a week or 2 once we actually see him back in training before he gets some time for the reserves and then at least a couple of appearances there before maybe he has half an hour or so of availability for us off the bench. I'll be surprised if we see him by early April unless he returns to full training in the next week or so. We don't even know if he's allowed to run without restrictions yet. There's an enormous gap between that and having the fitness to impact football matches at the highest level.
Even if he is back 1st April (or to match sharpness), there are 10 games to play in EPL.
He should start making sub appearances from the middle of March. That could be enough to give Nketiah a breather, or turn the tide in matches where things are not going for us.
Is it really the same injury?
Yes. Xhaka was back within 70 days I believe.
Because of the international break mid to late March. He won't be back before then.
Doing individual work with the ball doesn't mean anything. You can work with the ball before you're cleared to jog or run. For all we know that means some light passing and keep ups. There's nothing to indicate that his return is imminent and any speculation before you see him in some photos training normally with his teammates is probably going to be inaccurate. He didn't group him with Nelson and Smith-Rowe because they're at the same point in their recoveries. He grouped him with them because the only other injury is to Elnenny who is out for the season while Jesus should be available again this season. ESR has only been injured again for a short period and had already completed a full recovery prior. Nelson has been back in training for weeks. Jesus is coming off of a major surgery for which the recovery isn't complete hence the comment about needing to focus on strengthening the knee, he's not on their timetable. Once they say he's back in full training then a more accurate prediction of a return date can be made. Until then there's nothing concrete to go on.
He'll be back before that.
Hilarious. But about half the people commenting on it said he wasn’t good enough because he wasn’t finishing chances.
Okay, haven’t seen much of that either. But good for you for having such foresight! Jesus was only one of the best attackers in EPL until his injury.
There’s not much of it now that he’s out and our attack has suffered. It was more so before the World Cup when he was on a goal drought and people were calling for him to be replaced.
Nope.
Ok Gary O'Driscoll. Thanks for the inside info. Too bad in this case.
