The Torino Post
Market31 Aug 2026
Nikola Vlašić 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 The request is on a desk at Torino, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market31 Aug 2026
Pergolettese come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Torino did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Eyes on Rafael Melo again
The phone has started ringing about Rafael Melo again, and this time the name on the line is AlbinoLeffe. Torino are listening politely and promising nothing.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Nikola Vlašić runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad31 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Franco Israel
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Franco Israel, and the manager let it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
One of those days for Saúl Coco
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.36, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Duván Zapata in the eights
A performance of 8.12 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match29 Aug 2026
Duván Zapata rescues a point for Torino
It needed Duván Zapata to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Atalanta, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
In brief
- Market Still no ink between Torino and Cesare Casadei
- Squad Duván Zapata finally opens his account
- Squad Cesare Casadei knocks on the manager’s door