The Torino Post
Squad28 Jun 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Luca Cantarella
29 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Torino lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
Torino bid $12.4M for Nikola Krstović
The offer went to Atalanta this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Market28 Jun 2027
Zakaria Aboukhlal hands in a written request
“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.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
Tiago Codinha: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Torino have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market28 Jun 2027
Bologna 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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Real improvement from Niccolò Fortini at Torino
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Niccolò Fortini is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
Inter tell Torino: Yann Aurel Bisseck is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Zakaria Aboukhlal
“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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Yahrell Black signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Yahrell Black commits to Torino for another 3 years.
In brief
- The dugout Luis Sinisterra has become a man the manager trusts
- Market The Franculino story refuses to die
- The dugout A door opens for Gvidas Gineitis