As Pantaleo Corvinonot far from half a century of experience in football transfers, wanted on the occasion of his first summer transfer market since returning to Serie A (it was September 2022) to clarify are How the market works for a club like the LecceClear and unmistakable statements, which we are re-proposing in full because they can always be very useful at this time of year: “Believe me, behind every operation, and with you there is no need to insist on this, there are many other operations to get to the one you have then defined. Or what you want to do, and then you don’t get to do it for one reason or another. So behind 135 operations for each one that is concluded there are another four that you follow up on to be able to finalise it. I leave it to you and your imagination what it means to carry out an operation (…). In 700 days, 49 players have arrived in the first team, 38 have left, for a total of 87 operations between incomings and outgoings; 48 have been done with the youth sector, of which 31 incomings and 17 outgoings”.
Textual words pronounced by Pantaleo Raven in a press conference that removes, perhaps once and for all, the doubts about the Giallorossi modus operandi in the transfer market. The calculation is easy and intuitive and gives an idea of how much complex both the universe of transfer market: for every player signed, Lecce had to negotiate another four, therefore 80 (between the first team and the youth sector) for 5 years 400 footballers who, in one way or another, have been treated in 700 days, from his return to Salento to, precisely, September 2022 (date of the declarations)
An answer that is impossible to misunderstand and that could be reassure those who are concerned about so many names linked to the Giallorossi (not all, obviously, actually negotiated or negotiable), fearing perhaps that there are no possibilities of building a team up to the task. Nothing could be more wrong, simply the normality of things (negotiating five to take one) in a frenetic context and from roller coaster What is the transfer market like for everyone, especially for medium-small clubs?
One last, important, aspect to close this summary of the directives that the Corvinian experience has provided us in recent months, relating to the incorrect since non-existent axiom according to which Lecce is not really looking for the names that are most circulating in the Giallorossi media orbit. “There is too much talk about it, and when there is so much talk it is because the director wants to mislead us”. Yes and no. The reason is easily said and lies as always in experience. Take for example the Market for Serie A 2022/23where to lightning operations like Pongracic, Pezzella or Bistrovic (these, yes, the typical Corvino-style underhand shots) have also been joined by the most elaborate and prolonged over time negotiations for Falcone, Baschirotto, Colombo or Di Francesco, which lasted longer and “came out” well before their formalization. Or think again of Umtitiabout which many thought it was just a transfer fantasy because it was simply being talked about insistently, soap opera style. Not a 1+1 that gave 3 as a result subverting the rule, but simply a rule that does not exist. Signed Pantaleo Corvino.
