Marked for Che Adams
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match10 Oct 2026
4 matches without a win for Torino
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Torino are no longer polite ones.
Squad12 Oct 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Andrea Luongo is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 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.
Market12 Oct 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for Torino against Inter
0‑1 to Inter, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Torino training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cristiano Biraghi 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Torino told Guillermo Maripán something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Market12 Oct 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Nikola Vlašić’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 10. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Torino
Che Adams 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 Oct 2026
“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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
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.
Loan watch5 Oct 2026
“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 2 appearances in 6 say he has earned the hearing.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
87% of the income goes out in wages at Torino
Every club in football 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 somebody has tried it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Torino will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
Match3 Oct 2026
Torino and Lazio cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Lazio came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
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Steady
Market28 Sep 2026
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.
Squad28 Sep 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The medical room confirms 17 days on the sidelines for Filippo Conzato, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match26 Sep 2026
It needed Duván Zapata to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Napoli, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Torino training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Enzo Ebosse 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
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Torino
Che Adams 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Michael Zeppieri is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Cristiano Biraghi for 15 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Torino will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Match19 Sep 2026
AC Milan left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Duván Zapata 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.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
“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 1 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
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Triumph
Market24 Aug 2026
The fee is $10.8M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Como drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Torino
Che Adams 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.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Ivan Smolčić from Como for $10.8M, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Match22 Aug 2026
A 2‑1 win over Cagliari, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 7.87. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Market24 Aug 2026
Pianese 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.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
No investment in the facilities at Torino
Nothing about this will be in a press release. A plan went upstairs, came back rejected, and the version of the club that would have existed in three years' time just quietly stopped being possible.
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Steady
Squad17 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Torino say no — this time
The offer from Pisa for Franco Israel 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.
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
“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.
Squad10 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.
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
Altamura 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.
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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
Che Adams 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. 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.
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.