Leonardo Ricci

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The Pro Vercelli Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Pro Vercelli say no — this time

The offer from Giana Erminio for Pietro Passador 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.

Boardroom

1 academy players handed senior numbers at Pro Vercelli

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Squad

Words at Pro Vercelli training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Achraf el Bouchataoui 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.

Transfer targets

Pro Vercelli rebuffed over Mateo Tanlongo

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

Market

One of our own: Leonardo Ricci joins the Pro Vercelli first team

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

Squad

Mattia Del Favero 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 Pro Vercelli this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Pro Vercelli try to borrow Ivan Smolčić

Como 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.

Transfer targets

Pro Vercelli ask about Oliver Provstgaard

A loan enquiry to Lazio: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Boardroom

Pro Vercelli say no to the training-ground money

The plan went upstairs and came back down. Nothing about that will make a headline anywhere else, and everybody who works at the training ground will remember it for years.

In brief