Marked for Saúl Coco
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match15 Dec 2027
Torino through in the cup
A 3‑0 win over Catania, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Squad20 Dec 2027
9 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market20 Dec 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Player ratings20 Dec 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.91, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market20 Dec 2027
Torino may not be able to give Alieu Njie what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Alieu Njie wants continental football; whether Torino can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad20 Dec 2027
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.
Match18 Dec 2027
Alieu Njie scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Inter, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
The terraces20 Dec 2027
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Squad20 Dec 2027
A row about effort at Torino
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Cesare Casadei was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad13 Dec 2027
22 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match11 Dec 2027
2‑5 to Lazio, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Player ratings13 Dec 2027
At 36 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.81, and nobody on the pitch better.
The dugout13 Dec 2027
Álex Pérez: 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.
Squad13 Dec 2027
A falling-out at Torino
Duván Zapata and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match11 Dec 2027
7 goals as Torino and Lazio go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Torino and Lazio, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Rolando Mandragora 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.
Market13 Dec 2027
Saúl Coco is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Torino has been clear about where Saúl Coco stands, which is more than many ever get.
Loan watch13 Dec 2027
“I watch every Torino game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Bra runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Steady
Player ratings29 Nov 2027
Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Tempers go at Torino
Rolando Mandragora was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Cesare Casadei 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.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
“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.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
Franco Israel knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Franco Israel trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Sebastiano Martinelli after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Market29 Nov 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Saúl Coco’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Match27 Nov 2027
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Padova will be the happier side with the point.
Looking ahead29 Nov 2027
Monza next, and one man in the Torino dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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Upbeat
Player ratings22 Nov 2027
Age has not caught Duván Zapata yet — 7.99
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.99 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Torino may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings22 Nov 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Duván Zapata 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.
Squad22 Nov 2027
A row about effort at Torino
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rolando Mandragora was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match20 Nov 2027
A 1‑0 win over Pescara, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Sebastiano Martinelli kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
Eray Cömert 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 dugout22 Nov 2027
Ardian Ismajli 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.
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Steady
Match3 Nov 2027
Torino march on in the cup
Sambenedettese are out and Torino go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings8 Nov 2027
Flynn Macnack, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 8.14
A mark of 8.14 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings8 Nov 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Words exchanged at Torino
Rolando Mandragora and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Loan watch8 Nov 2027
“I watch every Torino game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Bra runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The terraces8 Nov 2027
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Cesare Casadei 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.
Squad8 Nov 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ali Dembélé and Torino agree another 4 years.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
Alieu Njie has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Torino will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Crisis
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
Successful dribbles: 37. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market25 Oct 2027
Saúl Coco 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.
Match23 Oct 2027
6 matches without a win for Torino
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Torino are no longer polite ones.
Market25 Oct 2027
Torino may not be able to give Alieu Njie what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Alieu Njie wants continental football; whether Torino can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Duván Zapata 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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
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.
Match23 Oct 2027
Como take the points off Torino
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout25 Oct 2027
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Sebastiano Martinelli to a room that had heard them before.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
There was no pressure on him and nowhere he had to be. Torino lost a goal to a decision that took half a second and will be discussed all week.
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Steady
Squad16 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Franco Israel out for 88 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Torino will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market16 Aug 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Fiorentina waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Torino is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market16 Aug 2027
Torino say no — this time
The offer from Pumas UNAM for Roberto Alvarado was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market16 Aug 2027
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Ternana had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Market16 Aug 2027
“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.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
The offer went to Genoa 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jonathan Silva is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Torino
Rolando Mandragora and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words at Torino training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Erick Sánchez 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.
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Steady
Market5 Jul 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Catania waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Torino is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
The dugout5 Jul 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
The clubs have shaken hands with Genoa; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Tempers go at Torino
Roberto Alvarado was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market5 Jul 2027
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Torino heard it as anything else.
Squad5 Jul 2027
A row about effort at Torino
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rolando Mandragora was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Torino asked and Catanzaro said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market5 Jul 2027
36 games and 14 goals away from here, and a man the manager did not have last summer. The loan did what loans are supposed to do and almost never do.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jonathan Silva and Torino agree another 3 years.
In brief
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Squad
15 new faces, and Torino are still learning each other
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The dugout
Torino keep their word to Saúl Coco
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Boardroom
Intake day at the Torino academy
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Steady
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Dinamo Moscow keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
“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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
A falling-out at Torino
Rolando Mandragora and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Jun 2027
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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
At 27 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Words at Torino training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cesare Casadei 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 Jun 2027
Catania are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Torino will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Eray Cömert
“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.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
Saúl Coco knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Torino, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Market21 Jun 2027
Business is business: Nikola Vlašić goes
Napoli paid $59.8M 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.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
$25.0M on the table at Dinamo Moscow. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
The terraces21 Jun 2027
Nikola Vlašić has gone, the accounts have $59.8M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.
Market21 Jun 2027
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.
Squad21 Jun 2027
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.
Squad21 Jun 2027
A falling-out at Torino
Roberto Alvarado and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Jun 2027
A row about effort at Torino
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rolando Mandragora was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad21 Jun 2027
At 27 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
Saúl Coco 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.
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Steady
Squad24 May 2027
18 days out for Andrea Luongo after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Torino will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market24 May 2027
Flynn Macnack has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Torino they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad24 May 2027
A falling-out at Torino
Roberto Alvarado and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad24 May 2027
A row about effort at Torino
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rolando Mandragora was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad24 May 2027
18 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout24 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Saúl Coco
“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.
Loan watch24 May 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Torino, and 8 appearances in 40 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout24 May 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Torino, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market24 May 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Rolando Mandragora’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Upbeat
Match8 May 2027
4‑1, and Roberto Alvarado took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Torino tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Match10 May 2027
Full time on the season at Torino
Position 9 on 50 points. Every season is a story and this is the last line of it, and now the club has three months to decide what the next one is about.
Player ratings10 May 2027
At 36 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.37, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad10 May 2027
Tempers go at Torino
Roberto Alvarado was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad10 May 2027
Rolando Mandragora 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.
Squad10 May 2027
13 goals and a season average of 7.20. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Loan watch10 May 2027
35 appearances away from home and 14 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
The terraces10 May 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Gabriele Falasca has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Roberto Alvarado was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.51. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
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Steady
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 30. 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Torino
Rolando Mandragora and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Erick Sánchez 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.
Loan watch15 Mar 2027
27 appearances at Audace Cerignola and the goals keep coming. Torino are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Sebastiano Martinelli after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market15 Mar 2027
Saúl Coco placed on the list
Torino have made Saúl Coco available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Market15 Mar 2027
The name of Nikola Vlašić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Torino say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Age has not caught Duván Zapata yet — 7.82
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.82 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
An order from above at Torino: somebody has to go
Balance sheets do not care about form or about who the manager was planning to build around. The board have decided a sale is required, and the only question left is which name ends up carrying it.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Duván Zapata and Torino agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Mar 2027
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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Torino
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rolando Mandragora was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match6 Mar 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Roberto Alvarado. 2‑1 against Como, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Roberto Alvarado was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.16. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Zakaria Aboukhlal was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.11. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
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.
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Upbeat
Squad28 Dec 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Torino will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match26 Dec 2026
3‑0, and Che Adams took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Torino tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Both of them Che Adams's — 9.59
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.59, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Torino
Nikola Vlašić was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market28 Dec 2026
Saúl Coco has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Torino can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Che Adams is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.36 with 11 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages swallow 132% of the Torino income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Ninety minutes of Zakaria Aboukhlal at his very best
Marked 8.31. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Torino.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Ninety minutes of Erick Sánchez at his very best
Marked 8.10. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Torino.
In brief
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The dugout
Daniel Bragança gets it from the manager
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Match
Halfway: Torino sit in position 8
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Steady
Match12 Dec 2026
A derby to forget for Torino
Beaten 0‑3 by Juventus in the one fixture where losing is not allowed. The football was bad enough; the week ahead will be worse.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Torino will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match9 Dec 2026
Torino through in the cup
A 2‑0 win over Juve Stabia, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Market14 Dec 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market14 Dec 2026
São Paulo 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.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.82 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
No sign of nerves from Niccolò Fortini at 20 — 7.96
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Niccolò Fortini did not need any: 7.96, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad14 Dec 2026
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.
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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Torino will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 34. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market2 Nov 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Torino heard it as anything else.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Torino
Rolando Mandragora and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market2 Nov 2026
Saúl Coco 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Erick Sánchez 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
Bologna made Torino work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
One of those days for Che Adams
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.24, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
In brief
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The dugout
Erick Sánchez gets it from the manager
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Boardroom
Wages swallow 118% of the Torino income
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The dugout
A promise honoured at Torino
From our football correspondent
Steady
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market10 Aug 2026
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Torino
Rolando Mandragora and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Saúl Coco and Torino agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market10 Aug 2026
The name of Rafael Melo has come up in conversations Torino were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Torino training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Zakaria Aboukhlal 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gvidas Gineitis, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market3 Aug 2026
Nikola Vlašić wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Torino hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Nikola Vlašić and Torino agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Torino
Nikola Vlašić was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market3 Aug 2026
Nobody at Torino has picked up the phone to Che Adams
36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Lazio have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Torino are still strangers to each other
6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.