The Lecce Sentinel
Market21 Jul 2031
Julian Vazquez agrees terms with Trento
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Lecce people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market21 Jul 2031
Mamadou Alpha Diallo 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.
Transfer targets21 Jul 2031
Youssouph Sylla due for a Lecce medical
Everything agreed with Latina, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad21 Jul 2031
Jonas Dahlberg Strand is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad21 Jul 2031
Words exchanged at Lecce
Samuele Vitale 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.
Transfer targets21 Jul 2031
Door shut on Valentino Buccolo
Lecce asked and Bari said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad21 Jul 2031
A late step up for Davide Atzeni
At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Market21 Jul 2031
One of our own: Angelo Agostini joins the Lecce first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Angelo Agostini is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market21 Jul 2031
One of our own: Fabio Benedetti joins the Lecce first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Fabio Benedetti is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Squad Julian Vazquez falls out with a teammate over standards
- The dugout No hiding place for Tommaso Nobile
- The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Clarence Corallo's mistake