Leandro Núñez

Central Midfielder - Lecce
21 Oct 2027
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Marked for Leandro Núñez

60 Edition

The Lecce Sentinel

20 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The dugout20 Sep 2027

Teun Koopmeiners: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Lecce have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market20 Sep 2027

Fabio Andrea Ruggeri is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Lecce is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad20 Sep 2027

A row about effort at Lecce

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Joël Monteiro was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match18 Sep 2027

A bad afternoon for Lecce against Parma

0‑1 to Parma, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad20 Sep 2027

Lorenzo Meazzi in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lecce this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad20 Sep 2027

Leandro Núñez stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Leandro Núñez and Lecce agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout20 Sep 2027

Lassana Coulibaly is still paying for one afternoon at Lecce

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Squad20 Sep 2027

Too much change too quickly at Lecce

10 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Loan watch20 Sep 2027

Oumar Ngom wants to come home

“I did not go to Südtirol to sit and watch. I want to come back to Lecce and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 14 matches say the rest.

In brief

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59 Edition

The Lecce Sentinel

13 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market13 Sep 2027

Nikola Štulić hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Lecce can pretend not to have heard.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Wladimiro Falcone stands alone

8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Market13 Sep 2027

Maksim Minkov has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Lecce they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market13 Sep 2027

Lecce say no — this time

The offer from Carrarese for Alexandru Borbei was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Real improvement from Maksim Minkov at Lecce

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Maksim Minkov is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Transfer targets13 Sep 2027

Inter tell Lecce: Vitor Roque is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Transfer targets13 Sep 2027

Elia Petrelli stays at Forli as time runs out

A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Lecce will try again when the window opens; Forli may not be selling by then.

The terraces13 Sep 2027

Lecce supporters have found a favourite in Adrian Lahdo

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Adrian Lahdo has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Market13 Sep 2027

Lecce promote Luca Ravelli from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Luca Ravelli has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief

51 Edition

The Lecce Sentinel

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market19 Jul 2027

Sadik Fofana has said yes to Casertana

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Lecce have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Transfer targets19 Jul 2027

Leonardo Candellone is a medical away from Lecce

The deal with Juve Stabia is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Market19 Jul 2027

Torino come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Lecce did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market19 Jul 2027

Eyes on Willem Geubbels again

The phone has started ringing about Willem Geubbels again, and this time the name on the line is FC Midtjylland. Lecce are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad19 Jul 2027

Tempers go at Lecce

Mohamed Kaba was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Transfer targets19 Jul 2027

Lecce rebuffed over Thijs Dallinga

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Bologna have kept their man, and Lecce go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market19 Jul 2027

Lameck Banda told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Lameck Banda has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Lecce.

Squad19 Jul 2027

Home is on Leandro Núñez's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Lecce are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad19 Jul 2027

15 new faces, and Lecce are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief

43 Edition

The Lecce Sentinel

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match24 May 2027

Lecce sink to position 20

24 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Match24 May 2027

Lecce finish in position 20

24 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.

Market24 May 2027

Ylber Ramadani puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Lecce, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match22 May 2027

No end in sight to Lecce's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Lecce has to find a result from somewhere.

The dugout24 May 2027

Corrie Ndaba: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Lecce have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings24 May 2027

Lassana Coulibaly goes up and wins it — 7.77

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.77 for the rest of it.

Squad24 May 2027

Leandro Núñez gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Leandro Núñez has just signed for Lecce, and for once the answer mattered.

Match22 May 2027

Lecce come up short against Lazio

Lazio left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout24 May 2027

Wladimiro Falcone gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

  • Squad Words at Lecce training over how hard people work
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • The dugout No place for Ivan Ilić on the big day