Trained at FC Bayern: Ex-Munich Sansone before moving to Lecce

5th club in Italy

Nicola Sansone (31) found a new club in Serie A a week after the transfer deadline in Italy. The Munich native, who trained at FC Bayern, is likely to join US Lecce. In Apulia, the winger, who is currently without a club, will complete the medical check on Sunday, as the club announced on Saturday in anticipation of a conclusion.

Lecce is his fifth club in Italy since his departure from Munich, where Sansone went through all the youth teams up to the U23 level but did not play professionally. The three-time Squadra Azzurra international joined Parma from Germany on a free transfer in 2011, was loaned to Crotona and sold to Sassuolo for more than 8 million euros. There was another loan with a subsequent 8 million transfer at FC Bologna, where Sansone was under contract from 2019 until recently.

FC Villarreal paid the highest transfer fee for the left winger (13 million euros to Sassuolo). In total, almost 30 million euros in transfer proceeds went to the former top scorer in the U19 Bundesliga. His signing in Lecce will mark the first free (permanent) move since his departure from FC Bayern.

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