The Lecco Courier
Squad16 Aug 2027
The step up is real for Gabriel Pellegrino
At 23 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
Alessandro Vogliacco due for a Lecco medical
Everything agreed with Cremonese, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Guillaume Furrer has improved at 26, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
Lecco rebuffed over William O'Sullivan
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Padova have kept their man, and Lecco go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market16 Aug 2027
Gennaro Valentini steps up from the Lecco academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gennaro Valentini has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market16 Aug 2027
Lecco promote Danilo Caprioli from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Danilo Caprioli 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.
Market16 Aug 2027
One of our own: Marco Baldini joins the Lecco first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marco Baldini is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market16 Aug 2027
Massimo Ranieri steps up from the Lecco academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Massimo Ranieri has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Ignacio Juárez wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Lecco know it.
In brief
- The dugout Andrea Riva gets it from the manager
- The dugout Noah Lovisa has been promised minutes
- Squad Lessons booked for Marwane Kritta at Lecco