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49 Edition

The Lecce Sentinel

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market5 Jul 2027

Santiago Pierotti agrees terms with Sassuolo

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.

Boardroom5 Jul 2027

Lecce spell it out for Giuseppe Zangari

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Giuseppe Zangari has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Boardroom5 Jul 2027

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Lecce

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

The dugout5 Jul 2027

Corrie Ndaba: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Lecce have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market5 Jul 2027

Jacopo Sassi 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.

Market5 Jul 2027

Mattia Viviani is a Lecce player

The fee is $1.4M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Arezzo drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Market5 Jul 2027

Lecce sell Omri Gandelman for $1.9M

Omri Gandelman has left for Sassuolo in a $1.9M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad5 Jul 2027

Àlex Sala signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Àlex Sala commits to Lecce for another 4 years.

Squad5 Jul 2027

A falling-out at Lecce

Àlex Sala and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

In brief

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32 Edition

The Lecce Sentinel

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad8 Mar 2027

Wladimiro Falcone keeps Lecce in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

The dugout8 Mar 2027

Alessandro Seghetti says Lecce went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market8 Mar 2027

Ylber Ramadani has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Lecce can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad8 Mar 2027

Home is on Lassana Coulibaly's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Lecce are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad8 Mar 2027

The step up is real for Pasquale Esposito

At 18 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.

Player ratings8 Mar 2027

Nobody could get near Riccardo Sottil

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad8 Mar 2027

A row about effort at Lecce

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

The dugout8 Mar 2027

No hiding place for Corrie Ndaba

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Corrie Ndaba, and the manager let it.

The dugout8 Mar 2027

A promise honoured at Lecce

Something was said to Danilo Veiga and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

In brief

19 Edition

The Lecce Sentinel

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad7 Dec 2026

A one-man rearguard from Marco Bleve

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market7 Dec 2026

Lazar Samardžić raises the bar for Lecce

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Lecce heard it as anything else.

Match5 Dec 2026

Lecce come up short against Bologna

Bologna left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout7 Dec 2026

Omri Gandelman gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad7 Dec 2026

Gaby Jean 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.

Loan watch7 Dec 2026

Matías Pérez counts the days

“I watch every Lecce game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Avellino runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

The dugout7 Dec 2026

Giuseppe Zangari answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Player ratings7 Dec 2026

Nobody could get near Riccardo Sottil

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad7 Dec 2026

A ban for Santiago Pierotti

One booking too many, and a game watched from the stand. Lecce lose him for the most avoidable reason in the sport.

In brief