It was a frenetic day at the ATA Executive Hotel in Milan on Wednesday as clubs from Italy's top-flight desperately tried to put the finishing touches to their squads for the season ahead. After a flurry of last minute activity, sporting directors across the peninsula can now head for some late summer sunshine before preparing for January when the window will re-open for business.

Serie A Weekly welcome guest writer Steven Van Duyse to our crew with an eye to U.S. Lecce. Find out more about on the potential of the Giallorossi in 2011-2012 as Steve lets us know if these Southerners will be more than Serie A bottom feeders in their second season up from Serie B calcio. Lecce narrowly avoided the drop last season, five points clear of the relegation zone.

Week 1 & 20 28/08/11 and 29/01/12 Atalanta Cesena Bologna Roma Cagliari- Milan Inter- Lecce Lazio Chievo Napoli Genoa Novara Palermo Parma Catania Siena Fiorentina Udinese Juventus Week 2 & 21 11/09/11 and 01/02/12 Catania Siena Cesena Napoli Chievo Novara Fiorentina Bologna Genoa .

Unione Sportiva Lecce or simply U.S. Lecce is an Italian soccer club based in Lecce, Apulia. Lecce currently play in the Italian Serie A after earning promotion as 2009/10 Serie B champions. The club avoided relegation by five points with a 17th place finish at the end of the 2010/11 season. On Wednesday, Lecce employed the [.

After a run of three good performances, against Palermo, Cagliari and Inter, Sunday lunchtime saw Juventus return to the kind of inept display seen before that spell. During that dismal seven game run they won just twice and were eliminated from the Coppa Italia while conceding 12 goals, a worrying period that appeared to be over as the squad slowly returned to something resembling full strength.

Napoli striker Edinson Cavani will celebrate his 24th birthday on Monday safe in the knowledge that his two strikes at the Stadio Olimpico on Saturday night against Roma has converted even the most fervent of non believers that his team are there for the long haul in this most compelling of championship races.

Palermo President Maurizio Zamparini is a superstitious old soul. Before Wednesday night's game at the Stadio Renzo Barbera against Juventus, he did what he always does when his nerves get the better of him jumped straight in his car and drove around the city unable to face watching his team in action.

The Serie A Weekly guide to all the comings and goings in Italy's top-flight concludes as we take a look at the rest of the clubs from Juventus to Udinese. JUVENTUS In: Toni (Genoa undisclosed), Magnusson (Fram loan deal), Barzagli (Wolfsburg 0.3 million euros), Matri (Cagliari 15.5 million euros) Out: Lanzafame (Brescia loan deal),.

It was another super Sunday for Neapolitans as their Uruguayan talisman Edinson Cavani recorded his second treble strike of the season in the 4-0 destruction of Sampdoria to leave Il Vesuviani just four points behind leaders Milan. The game was effectively sown up by half-time thanks to a double salvo from Cavani.

Bari are staring down the barrel of the Serie A rifle after becoming the latest victims of the Ezequiel Lavezzi and Edinson Cavani show. A goal in each half from Napoli's version of Batman and Robin was enough to ensure that Walter Mazzarri's men left Puglia with all three points to leave Bari cut adrift at the foot of the table.

Was für ein Ding! Ballannahme perfekt, Schusshaltung perfekt, Flugkurve perfekt! Die Folge ist...ein Traumtor! Zlatan Ibrahimovic weiß halt wie es geht und bei diesem Weitschuss zeigt er es auch mal wieder. Geil oder... Sehr schön sind doch auch die beiden Herren auf der Tribüne. Spass hatten die vermutlich nicht bei dem Tor.

It's been a fabulous week to be a Lecce supporter, after a fantastic win in the capital in week 19 against Lazio, they backed that up with a courageous performance on Sunday evening against league leaders Milan to earn a 1-1 draw and instill some new found belief in their fight for Serie A survival.

Magnificent, sensational or as the Italian's like to say strepitoso or resounding, just some of the words that best describe Napoli striker Edinson Cavani's display at a packed San Paolo on Sunday evening after his treble strike destroyed woeful Juventus. Even by his own high standards, this will go down as Il Matador's finest hour in a Napoli shirt since his 20 million euro.

Napoli were involved in the biggest fixture of week 18 as Walter Mazzarri took his team to the Giuseppe Meazza to face Inter. The Partenopei 's title aspirations will be severely tested over the first four days following the winter break with a home fixture against Juventus to come on Sunday evening.

On Thursday afternoon at the Stadio Via del Mare in Lecce, Serie A returns to Puglia with the most eagerly anticipated derby for many years. To say that Lecce v Bari will be a relegation six pointer hardly does justice to a game that will surely see the losers dealt a psychological blow that they will find impossible to recover from.