It pays to have associates in excessive locations, and as soon as Enzo Maresca left Man Metropolis for Leicester, it was clearly solely going to be a matter of time earlier than he went again to his outdated employers for gamers to populate the Foxes squad.
Issues couldn’t actually have gone any higher for Maresca at this level, provided that Leicester have been the entrance runners within the Championship all season lengthy, and stay seven factors forward of second-placed Ipswich City, who they play of their subsequent fixture this weekend.
While a win gained’t change something at this stage it should cement their place as league leaders, and it’ll even be one recreation much less for his or her challengers to attempt to overhaul them.
Based on The Athletic (subscription required), the Foxes wish to make on-loan 20-year-old Callum Doyle’s transfer a everlasting one this summer time, although it isn’t clear if Man Metropolis will accede to the identical, notably if Leicester supervisor to make it again to the promised land on the first time of asking.
The 43-year-old Italian isn’t believed to have left the European champions on dangerous phrases, so one can assume that any negotiations could be handled sympathetically in any occasion.
Given how essential Doyle has been for Leicester in 2023/24, touchdown him on a everlasting deal makes good sense.