diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 11ddea1..f1420b1 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -727,6 +727,24 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "deadpool"
+version = "0.9.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "51dc1e92ba8164da131a4753a26cb1e7ebcfe617e56bb3c2b6136049c8ee5730"
+dependencies = [
+ "async-trait",
+ "deadpool-runtime",
+ "num_cpus",
+ "tokio",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "deadpool-runtime"
+version = "0.1.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "eaa37046cc0f6c3cc6090fbdbf73ef0b8ef4cfcc37f6befc0020f63e8cf121e1"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "diff"
 version = "0.1.12"
@@ -1601,7 +1619,7 @@ version = "0.8.0"
 dependencies = [
  "cached",
  "check-if-email-exists",
- "deadpool",
+ "deadpool 0.9.1",
  "doc-comment",
  "fast_chemail",
  "glob",
@@ -3518,7 +3536,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "33807c11bd2c5a3896c36042ef2ca9663795bb7e4af2fe87474a159ea72c2159"
 dependencies = [
  "async-trait",
- "deadpool",
+ "deadpool 0.7.0",
  "futures",
  "futures-timer",
  "http-types",
diff --git a/lychee-lib/Cargo.toml b/lychee-lib/Cargo.toml
index 6f2bd00..d509e9c 100644
--- a/lychee-lib/Cargo.toml
+++ b/lychee-lib/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ version = "0.8.0"
 
 [dependencies]
 check-if-email-exists = "0.8.25"
-deadpool = "0.7.0"
+deadpool = "0.9.1"
 fast_chemail = "0.9.6"
 glob = "0.3.0"
 html5ever = "0.25.1"
diff --git a/lychee-lib/src/client_pool.rs b/lychee-lib/src/client_pool.rs
index a2c8a31..85f3ef0 100644
--- a/lychee-lib/src/client_pool.rs
+++ b/lychee-lib/src/client_pool.rs
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ impl ClientPool {
     /// asynchronously to a client from the pool
     pub async fn listen(&mut self) {
         while let Some(req) = self.rx.recv().await {
-            let client = self.pool.get().await;
+            let client = self.pool.get().await.unwrap();
             let tx = self.tx.clone();
             tokio::spawn(async move {
                 // Client::check() may fail only because Request::try_from() may fail