The Lecco Courier
Market26 Aug 2030
Luca Trombini 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 Lecco can pretend not to have heard.
Squad26 Aug 2030
Tempers go at Lecco
Filip Marchwiński 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.
Squad26 Aug 2030
Real improvement from Fynn Hawkeswood at Lecco
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Fynn Hawkeswood is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad26 Aug 2030
Bashiru Usman arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Bashiru Usman has, at Lecco, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Boardroom26 Aug 2030
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Lecco
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.
Squad26 Aug 2030
Marwane Kritta 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.
Boardroom26 Aug 2030
Lecco beat the market to Gabriele Di Mauro from Monza
Monza will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Gabriele Di Mauro has pre-agreed a move to Lecco, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Transfer targets26 Aug 2030
Lecco rebuffed over Michael Venturi
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Venezia have kept their man, and Lecco go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market26 Aug 2030
Lecco promote Sergio Caputo from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sergio Caputo 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
- Market Roberto Pagani steps up from the Lecco academy
- Market Lecco promote Arturo D'Angelo from within
- Boardroom Lecco let a promise lapse