The Torino Post
Market28 Aug 2028
David Neres puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Torino, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market28 Aug 2028
Udinese watching David Neres
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Torino have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Che Adams 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.
Match26 Aug 2028
Whatever happens, Torino do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Alessio Cacciamani is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 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.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Words at Torino training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rolando Mandragora is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market28 Aug 2028
Business is business: Alberto Paleari goes
Frosinone paid $250.0K and Torino took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
The dugout28 Aug 2028
Patrick Cutrone 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.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Lorenzo Di Stefano has improved at 25, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 4 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
In brief
- Player ratings David Neres was unplayable
- Market Nicholas Bonfanti has his eye on Europe
- The dugout Kamaldeen Sulemana gets picked when it counts