LECCE – Agreement reached between Lecce and striker José Antonio Morente Oliva, known as Tete Morente. The manager of the technical area Pantaleo Corvino and the sporting director Stefano Trinchera have finalized the final details with the player’s entourage. The Spaniard will sign a three-year contract with the Via Colonel Costadura club, which will probably also have an option to extend it for a further season.
In short, after about a week from the first rumors related to the operation, considered by all insiders as close to completion, the parties reached an agreement. Dying will arrive in Salento on Monday and will undergo medical examinations on Tuesday. Then she will go to the office to put pen to paper. Afterwards, he will agree details on his future accommodation in the city with team manager Claudio Vino.
The new Giallorossi grew up in the youth sector of Atletico Madrid and wore the shirts of Malaga, Atletico Baleares, Lugo and Gimnastic. Since 2020 he has played for Elche (140 appearances and 18 goals). He is a right-footed winger who prefers to be deployed on the left-handed flank. In the 2023/2024 competitive year he tested himself in the Spanish Liga 2.
That of Morente is the classic blow to Corvino, as the striker from La Linea de Conception, where he was born on 4 December 1996, has his contract expiring. Lecce will therefore be able to sign him on a free transfer from the beginning of July. He is little known to the general public, but the manager of the technical area of the Salento club is convinced that he can make himself appreciated in Serie A, in the Giallorossi.
Within the staff that will be made available to coach Luca Gotti in view of the 2024/2025 season, the Spaniard will take the place vacated by Swede Pontus Almqvist, who returned to Rostov at the end of his loan. Presumably, on the left flank he will compete for the place of Lameck Banda (who can also be used on the right) and Patrick Dorgu, if the Dane, who has been targeted by numerous leading clubs, is not sold. Lecce, among other things, can also count on two other wingers: the Argentine Santiago Pierotti and Nicola Sansone.
Today, meanwhile, from 9pm, the Salento fans will follow Italy’s debut match at the European Championships, against Albania, to cheer for the Azzurri, but also to see their favorite Ylber Ramadani and perhaps Taulant Seferi at work, tip of the national team directed by Sylvinho, whose name in the last few hours has been linked to that of the club chaired by Saverio Sticchi Damiani.
The Albanian striker, who can be used as a center forward and as a winger, wore the Baniyas shirt (Arab Emirates), on loan from Vorskla, a Ukrainian club with which he is under contract until 30 June 2025.
Recently, transfer rumors have linked the names of striker Armand Laurienté, from Sassuolo, and midfielder Jacopo Segre, from Palermo, to Lecce. Well, the French player seems completely off the radar as his profile is light years away from those usually followed by Corvino: the valuation, although lowered in the last year, is too high for Lecce’s budget, as well as his salary, and he is also a winger, a role in which the Salento squad is certainly not lacking at the moment. A possible negotiation for Segre could prove to be more affordable, as the player originally from Turin has a contract until 30 June 2025 and therefore the Rosanero club could be inclined to let him leave at a “possible” price, in order to avoid the risk of losing him for zero .
Meanwhile, according to rumors, the suitors for the Giallorossi center forward Nikola Krstovic are increasing. The newly promoted Como would have been added to Fiorentina, which is looking for a striker, and to Genoa, which is looking around in the eventuality of having to replace Mateo Retegui. The next few weeks will dissolve doubts about the future of the Montenegrin, who will only leave in the face of an indispensable offer.
