The Lecce Sentinel
Market10 Aug 2026
Paco Esteban has said yes to Giana Erminio
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Lecce have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market10 Aug 2026
Zurich come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Lecce did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market10 Aug 2026
Alessandro Seghetti arrives at Lecce in a $1.5M statement of intent
There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Lecce have paid $1.5M for Alessandro Seghetti, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Lecce go back to the board over Edoardo Goldaniga
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $322.6K — a club that wants Edoardo Goldaniga enough to be asked twice.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Wladimiro Falcone signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Wladimiro Falcone commits to Lecce for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move Alessandro Seghetti would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Alessandro Seghetti is living that version at Lecce, and it tends to show in the first month.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Lecce make their move for Edoardo Goldaniga
$300.0K on the table at Como. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Market10 Aug 2026
Ylber Ramadani 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Omri Gandelman 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.
In brief
- Squad 7 new faces, and Lecce are still learning each other
- The dugout Wladimiro Falcone asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Niko Kovač