Michael Zeppieri

Striker - Torino
17 Feb 2027
Wednesday
Process

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The Torino Post

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Flynn Macnack is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Torino is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Rolando Mandragora in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Torino this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Michael Zeppieri is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Match

A bad afternoon for Torino against Fiorentina

2‑3 to Fiorentina, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Ricardo Rodríguez falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings

Giovanni Simeone beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

Gianmarco Raimondi faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Gianmarco Raimondi after 2‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout

Kian Fitz-Jim gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

Torino pick somebody else ahead of Lucas Perri

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief

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The Torino Post

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Rolando Mandragora delivers — 7.81

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Rolando Mandragora scored, was marked 7.81, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Market

Only the photograph left for Flynn Macnack

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Flynn Macnack will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Torino the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

A falling-out at Torino

Nikola Vlašić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

The step up is real for Michael Zeppieri

At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

The dugout

Ardian Ismajli gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match

Late, late show earns Torino a point

Minute 95, against AC Milan, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.

Player ratings

Nikola Vlašić was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 17. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

Torino lose Jonathan Soye Ndime

19 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Match

Honours even between Torino and AC Milan

2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief