Marked for Pietro Comuzzo
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
19 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Torino lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match2 Dec 2026
Torino out of the cup
Lecce ended it 1‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Market7 Dec 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Torino can pretend not to have heard.
Loan watch7 Dec 2026
“I watch every Torino game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Cagliari runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Match5 Dec 2026
A 1‑0 win over Frosinone, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.05, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
Nobody left the Torino dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Torino
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sandro Kulenović was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Adrien Tamèze
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Match28 Oct 2026
Cup progress for Torino
A 3‑1 win over Campobasso, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Match28 Oct 2026
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Torino scored in the 106th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.15 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad2 Nov 2026
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
No sign of nerves from Andrea Luongo at 18 — 7.72
The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Andrea Luongo did not need any: 7.72, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market2 Nov 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Torino heard it as anything else.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Pietro Comuzzo, and the manager let it.
The terraces2 Nov 2026
Torino supporters have found a favourite in Rafael Melo
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Rafael Melo has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Torino asked and Toulouse FC said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market17 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Torino have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market17 Aug 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Giovanni Simeone’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Looking ahead17 Aug 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Cagliari in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Looking ahead17 Aug 2026
Looking ahead: the trip to Cagliari
Position 5 for the hosts, a long journey for the away end, and a fixture that will look ordinary on paper right up until it is not.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Pietro Comuzzo plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.