Leicester City manager Enzo Maresca has admitted he was left really surprised at what Chelsea did late last week.
He told the Mail Online that the decision the Blues made to recall Cesare Casadei from his loan spell with the Championship side certainly caught him off guard.
Casadei has recently joined up again with the rest of the Chelsea first team as he prepares to feature more for the Blues for the rest of the season.
It seems as if Mauricio Pochettino has taken a liking to the player, with him personally hinting that he could be about to use him a lot more.
This is despite the Italian not really setting the world alight for the second division leaders, with him often coming in for criticism in local media.
Despite not being a crucial player for the Foxes, Maresca has claimed that he was still surprised that Chelsea made the decision to bring him back to Stamford Bridge.
Casadei recall surprised Leicester
He said: “We were surprised Casadei went back to Chelsea, they own him so they can decide – we can’t do anything. We didn’t expect it but we deal with it and we see if we can do something before the transfer window closes.”
It remains to be seen how big a role the Italian youngster is going to play for the rest of the season, with him not being the only loanee recalled this month.
Andrey Santos was enduring an even worse loan at Nottingham Forest, and it remains to be seen if he will remain with the first team squad or go out on loan again.
He is currently representing Brazil in an Olympic tournament, and therefore it may be late in the window that a decision on the international is made for his future.
Receive a digest of our best Chelsea content each week direct to your mailbox
