Lecce

Italian Serie A
18 Aug 2026
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The Lecce Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market17 Aug 2026

Paco Esteban agrees terms with Pineto

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.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Lecce baulk at the price for Sandi Lovrić

Hellas Verona wanted more than $8.7M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Market17 Aug 2026

Genoa 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.

Market17 Aug 2026

Matías Pérez moves on

Como pay $3.5M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Market17 Aug 2026

Lecce sign Assane Diao, one for the future

Assane Diao is 20, and Lecce have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Squad17 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Lecce

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

Squad17 Aug 2026

A row about effort at Lecce

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

Squad17 Aug 2026

The formation has left Assane Diao behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Lecce will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Looking ahead17 Aug 2026

A reunion for Riccardo Sottil

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Fiorentina in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

In brief

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The Lecce Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Assane Diao due for a Lecce medical

Everything agreed with Como, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Lecce baulk at the price for Máximo Perrone

Como wanted more than $8.7M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Market10 Aug 2026

Cesena 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.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Lecce make their move for Daniel Denoon

$1.7M on the table at Pisa. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Wladimiro Falcone stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Wladimiro Falcone and Lecce agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Lecce

Antonino Gallo 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.

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

Words at Lecce training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lassana Coulibaly 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

The clock runs on Kialonda Gaspar's contract

48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

In brief

1 Edition

The Lecce Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market3 Aug 2026

AIK 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Antonino Gallo wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Lecce hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Antonino Gallo signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Antonino Gallo and Lecce agree another 4 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Lecce

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

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words at Lecce training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Antonino Gallo 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Giana Erminio watching Paco Esteban

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Lecce have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

In brief