There Sampdoria is hard at work ahead of next season. After a negative start, in the second part of the championship the Blucerchiati reversed the trend, gaining qualification for the Serie B playoffs The Ligurians – looking for a sporting director to support Andrea Mancini – will have to start from this result to plan next year.
Sampdoria, Torino are studying the offer for Leoni: the details
One of the young people who surprised the most was Giovanni Leoni. In just 5 months, the defender was able to conquer the Sampdoria environment, carving out a leading role within Andrea Pirlo’s board. It is difficult to find in Italy a class of 2006 with great qualities and great perspective like him. Lions he arrived from Padova on the last day of the transfer market, on loan with the right to buy set at 1.5 million euros. As reported in recent days, the concrete intention of Sampdoria would be to redeem the boy. However, his future could be far from Genoa.
The defender’s performances did not go unnoticed, so much so that they attracted the attention of several Serie A clubs. There would be strong interest in him from the Turin, a club that wants to build a new cycle. According to what was reported in today’s edition of Tuttosportto convince the Dorian management to let the 2006 class leave, the sporting director, Davide Vagnati, should put on the table at least six million euros.
The season of Lions
He became the youngest player to make his debut in Italy last season – at 16 just three months old – when Vincenzo Torrente threw him into the fray (in the 94th minute) in the away match, then lost, against Albinoleffe. He who had started the 22-23 season with the same age group, the U17 team, only to then catch the attention of the first team, the city in which he lives. Padua, in fact – since he was 5 years old. The season just ended, however, was quite strange: between Spring And first team with the Venetian team, with whom however he didn’t even collect a minute with the greats, before arriving in the winter market in Liguria, the Blucerchia side.
John Lions made everyone fall in love with it Sampdoria, which took him with the formula of the loan with right of redemption set at q.5 million. Just one match with the Sampdoria Primavera was enough for him to understand that the right context for him was another; great skills must be given to Andrea Pirlo, who sent him onto the pitch on 12 occasions out of the 16 available. In 9 of them he started from the 1st minute and he not only repaid with his performances, but also with the goal – first and only – in the 2-2 draw with Palermo at the Enzo Barbera stadium. Another record: he was the youngest player to score in the 2023/22024 Serie B championship, and with him Pirlo’s team lost only one match. His debut came immediately, after just two days in Liguria, he took to the field in the last quarter of an hour or so in the home match against Modena, in front of 20,000 people, astonished – as was he – by his entrance.
