The Torino Post
Market15 Nov 2027
Ivan Ilić wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Market15 Nov 2027
Ciro Casadei steps up from the Torino academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ciro Casadei has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market15 Nov 2027
Torino promote Sandro Rocca from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sandro Rocca has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market15 Nov 2027
One of our own: Ruggero Grasso joins the Torino first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ruggero Grasso is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
Ivan Ilić 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 dugout15 Nov 2027
Gvidas Gineitis asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
Cristiano Biraghi gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Cristiano Biraghi is on it.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Gvidas Gineitis still has not settled
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Torino would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
Looking ahead15 Nov 2027
A reunion for Enzo Ebosse
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.
In brief
- Squad Sergiu Perciun: “I am not a substitute”
- Squad Nikita Contini wants to know why he earns less
- Squad Duván Zapata looks at the other side of the line