However, the 19-year-old has hardly featured under Roy Hodgson since recovering from a back injury towards the end of October, making just two Premier League appearances which total 31 minutes.

Well – according to The Athletic – the South American was signed with the expectation that he could contribute immediately, rather than be viewed as a long term project requiring patience.

Therefore, you would expect France to have played more often than he has.

However – by the sounds of it – Hodgson simply prefers a unit of experienced professionals who play for the team, rather than young individualists.

The Athletic explained Franca’s absence by writing: “Hodgson prefers players who fit into his system, which is about collective responsibility far more than individual freedom. That inevitably leads to trusting experience over youth. His job is to keep Palace in the Premier League for next season, not to help them build for the future in any other sense.”