Enzo Maresca targeting long-term Chelsea stay as Leicester return offers chance to consolidate progress [Video]

In his press conference this week, Enzo Maresca spoke of two homes: the one which, he hopes, he is making at Chelsea, but first, the one his Leicester players turned up at unannounced – at 2am – to celebrate their promotion.

Ahead of his first return to the King Power Stadium, Maresca recalled the giddy Friday night (and Saturday morning) last April when, after Leeds suffered a surprise defeat at QPR, the Foxes’s top-flight return was confirmed.

“The first face I saw was Hamza [Choudhury],” said Maresca, explaining how the unexpected guests had interrupted celebrations until then confined to his family and his staff. “They didn’t even knock at the door – they were in the garden and then at my window. But when I drew the curtains, it was his face there.

“It showed how close the team was, the connection with the players. They could go for parties to a different place, yet they all arrived …