Petr Cech will travel with the rest of the Chelsea squad to Austria on Monday as he continues his rehabilitation from injury - but the goalkeeper may not see any match action on tour.
Cech is on the comeback trail, although he is not yet taking full part in training as he works to build his fitness back gradually with goalkeeping coach Christoph Lollichon at the club’s Cobham training base.
Blues assistant manager Steve Holland said: “He’s making very good progress and working as you’d expect of a guy of his professionalism. He’s working ahead of schedule.
“He’s working with Christoph every day now, not quite full goalkeeping work, but he’s well on course and hopefully it won’t be too long before he can join in full training.
“He’ll be with us in Austria and we see how he progress [before involving him in games].”
Thibaut Courtois will rival Cech for the gloves at Stamford Bridge next season after returning from his loan spell with Atletico.
He is expected to join up with the rest of the Blues squad in the second week of the European adventure after being granted an extended break due to his World Cup exertions.
Chelsea continued their pre-season preparations with a 3-2 win over AFC Wimbledon today.