Omar Lebyad

Striker - Lecco
15 Sep 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Omar Lebyad

7 Edition

The Lecco Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A fracture rules Omar Lebyad out for 58 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lecco will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Words at Lecco training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guillaume Furrer is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings

Matteo Casarotto beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Giuseppe D'Angelo was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Lecco dressing room was either.

The dugout

Gabriel Pellegrino asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout

Lecco pick somebody else ahead of Noah Lovisa

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Match

Lecco and Trento cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Trento came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

The dugout

The plan did not have a place for Matteo Arena

Nobody at Lecco is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.

Market

The window shut and Jacopo Furlan is still in the building

Lecco spent a month trying to move him and nobody rang back. He trains with a squad that has told him where he stands, and both sides start counting down to the next one.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Lecco Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

A fracture rules Omar Lebyad out for 65 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lecco will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 5 in, 2 out at Lecco

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 5 arrived, 2 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Market

Sambenedettese come back empty-handed

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

Squad

A row about effort at Lecco

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

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Gabriel Pellegrino

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Guillaume Furrer the difference as Lecco beat Giana Erminio

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Guillaume Furrer. 2‑0 against Giana Erminio, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Guillaume Furrer at his very best

Marked 8.39. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Lecco.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Gabriel Pellegrino at his very best

Marked 8.09. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Lecco.

Squad

Giulio Manetti slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Giulio Manetti is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

In brief

5 Edition

The Lecco Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Jacopo Furlan asks to leave Lecco

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

A fracture rules Omar Lebyad out for 73 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lecco will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Joaquin Dalmasso agrees terms with Sambenedettese

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Lecco people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Transfer targets

Lecco rebuffed over Sadik Fofana

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

Market

Nicolò Tondi moves on

Guidonia Montecelio pay $22.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Match

Matteo Casarotto sends Lecco past Alcione Milano

It finished 1‑0, and it was Matteo Casarotto’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Lecco.

Player ratings

Guillaume Furrer runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Lecco

7 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.

Player ratings

Matteo Casarotto was the difference for Lecco

Marked 7.56. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

In brief

4 Edition

The Lecco Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

80 days out for Omar Lebyad after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Lecco will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Nicolò Tondi agrees terms with Guidonia Montecelio

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Lecco people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market

Lorenzo Mihali 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 Lecco, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Tobías Ramírez rejects the move

Lecco had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at River Plate, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Boardroom

5 academy graduates step up at Lecco

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Squad

A row about effort at Lecco

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

Transfer targets

Door shut on Joël Schingtienne

Lecco asked and Venezia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Lecco promote Renato Zorzi from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Renato Zorzi 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.

Market

One of our own: Cristiano De Luca joins the Lecco first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Cristiano De Luca is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief

3 Edition

The Lecco Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Omar Lebyad breaks a bone — 87 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 87 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Transfer targets

Kevin Bonifazi is a medical away from Lecco

The deal with Bologna 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.

Squad

Michelangelo Benvenuto out for 15 days

The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Michelangelo Benvenuto, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Guillaume Furrer falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Transfer targets

Lecco rebuffed over Mikel Amondarain

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

Market

Sambenedettese join the queue for Joaquin Dalmasso

Add another name to the list: Sambenedettese have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Joaquin Dalmasso. The answer from Lecco has not changed — yet.

In brief

2 Edition

The Lecco Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Omar Lebyad breaks a bone — 94 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 94 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Omar Fayed

Lecco asked and Frosinone said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Words exchanged at Lecco

Giulio Manetti and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Market

48 months and counting on Antonio Metlika

Still no offer on the table, and Antonio Metlika’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Transfer targets

Lecco try to borrow Quentin Ndjantou

Paris Saint-Germain have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Market

Lecco and Lukas Sinn are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief