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Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market28 Dec 2026
Torino may not be able to give Saúl Coco what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Saúl Coco wants continental football; whether Torino can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad28 Dec 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.
Match26 Dec 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Torino and Cremonese, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Berat Djimsiti 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.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.85, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Che Adams was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.71. 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 ratings28 Dec 2026
Marked 8.60 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“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.
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Steady
Squad21 Dec 2026
There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market21 Dec 2026
Ivan Ilić 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.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market21 Dec 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Torino
Franco Israel 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 Dec 2026
Words at Torino training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Berat Djimsiti 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 ratings21 Dec 2026
Ninety minutes of Faustino Anjorin at his very best
Marked 8.68. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Torino.
Squad21 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Duván Zapata
“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 watch21 Dec 2026
“I did not go to Campobasso to sit and watch. I want to come back to Torino and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 16 matches say the rest.
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Steady
Match12 Dec 2026
The derby belongs to Torino
2‑1 against Juventus, and the songs went on long after the whistle. League positions come and go; days like this get retold at family dinners for years.
Squad14 Dec 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 19 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match9 Dec 2026
Torino bow out of the cup
Cosenza go through and Torino go home, 2‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Match12 Dec 2026
Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Nikola Vlašić scored in the 88th minute, Juventus had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Torino took the lot.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Torino — 7.61
1 for Luca Marianucci, marked 7.61, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
There are goals, and then there are goals against that particular opponent. The Torino support have their bragging rights for a year and they know exactly whose name is on them.
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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“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.
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Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Yahrell Black
15 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.
Match7 Dec 2026
Every point is an argument now for Torino
Position 19 and 10 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Berat Djimsiti, 33, rolls back the years — 8.51
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.51 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market7 Dec 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Torino is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Torino
Franco Israel 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Torino training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Berat Djimsiti 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
It finished 3‑2, and it was Giovanni Simeone’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Torino.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Marked 9.02 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
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Crisis
Squad30 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Yahrell Black
24 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
Giovanni Simeone had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Parma were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
Match28 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Torino's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Torino has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad30 Nov 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
Torino come up short against Parma
Parma left with the points after a 3‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Berat Djimsiti 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Berat Djimsiti
“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.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.61, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Nikola Vlašić was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.29. 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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Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Yahrell Black
31 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.
Squad23 Nov 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Torino training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Berat Djimsiti 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 ratings23 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Faustino Anjorin at his very best
Marked 8.52. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Torino.
Player ratings23 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. 8.31, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad23 Nov 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Giovanni Simeone's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Loan watch23 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Campobasso to sit and watch. I want to come back to Torino and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 12 matches say the rest.
Match21 Nov 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Udinese leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Crisis
Squad16 Nov 2026
Yahrell Black damages knee ligaments — 41 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 41 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
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.
Squad16 Nov 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
A bad afternoon for Torino against Pisa
3‑4 to Pisa, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Match14 Nov 2026
7 goals as Torino and Pisa go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Torino and Pisa, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Berat Djimsiti 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.
Player ratings16 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. 8.68, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Faustino Anjorin was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.41. 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 ratings16 Nov 2026
Saúl Coco was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.33. 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
Squad9 Nov 2026
There were 11 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match4 Nov 2026
Torino through in the cup
A 2‑1 win over Giugliano, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match9 Nov 2026
Every point is an argument now for Torino
Position 20 and 6 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A brace, and Duván Zapata takes the afternoon — 8.23
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Duván Zapata provided it, and the 8.23 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
No sign of nerves from Alieu Njie at 21 — 8.06
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Alieu Njie did not need any: 8.06, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market9 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Torino is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad9 Nov 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Torino training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Berat Djimsiti 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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Crisis
Squad2 Nov 2026
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
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.
Market2 Nov 2026
Torino may not be able to give Saúl Coco what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Saúl Coco wants continental football; whether Torino can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad2 Nov 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for Torino against Bologna
0‑1 to Bologna, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad2 Nov 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 ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Cesare Casadei
“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 watch2 Nov 2026
“I watch every Torino game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Hull City runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Crisis
Market26 Oct 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Saúl Coco 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Torino training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Berat Djimsiti 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 ratings26 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Como take the points off Torino
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Franco Israel
“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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.69, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A smaller club would suit Franco Israel now
He has had enough of the noise. Whether Torino can be a quieter place for him, or whether the only cure is a move somewhere the phone-ins are gentler, is a question for the next few months.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Shots: 11. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Age has not caught Duván Zapata yet — 8.33
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.33 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad19 Oct 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Lorenzo Carvalho 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Berat Djimsiti 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
A 3‑1 win over Fiorentina, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Che Adams at his very best
Marked 9.24. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Torino.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Saúl Coco at his very best
Marked 8.60. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Torino.
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Crisis
Match10 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Torino
8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market12 Oct 2026
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.
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
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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Torino training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Berat Djimsiti 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for Torino against Inter
1‑3 to Inter, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Ivan Ilić 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Giovanni Simeone, and the manager let it.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
10 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
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Crisis
Match3 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Torino
7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Alieu Njie is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 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.
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
At 26 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Zakaria Aboukhlal scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Lazio, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Marked 8.98 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
9 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
Market5 Oct 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Torino, another week without a signature from Berat Djimsiti.
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Crisis
Squad28 Sep 2026
There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match26 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Torino
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Matteo Prati is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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.
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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Torino training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Berat Djimsiti 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
3 matches without a goal for Torino
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Match26 Sep 2026
Napoli left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
The one thing Duván Zapata could not do
Shots: 7, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
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Crisis
Squad21 Sep 2026
There were 10 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match19 Sep 2026
A hiding for Torino
Beaten 0‑3 by AC Milan, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match19 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Torino
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Torino are no longer polite ones.
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
Berat Djimsiti 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.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
Nobody left the Torino dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matteo Prati, and the manager let it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Shots: 8, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
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Uneasy
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 37. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 26. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 26, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A defender's afternoon for Saúl Coco
Defensive actions: 26. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Market14 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Lorenzo Carvalho will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Torino the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match12 Sep 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Torino
Franco Israel 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Torino training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Berat Djimsiti 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad7 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Torino — 7.83
1 for Saúl Coco, marked 7.83, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Market7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Torino
Saúl Coco 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Michael Zeppieri is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Cesare Casadei and Torino agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match5 Sep 2026
A bad afternoon for Torino against Sassuolo
1‑2 to Sassuolo, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Ivan Ilić
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Zakaria Aboukhlal was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.05. 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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Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market31 Aug 2026
Pisa 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
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.
Player ratings31 Aug 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Che Adams
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Che Adams, and the manager let it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 8.69 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Torino training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gvidas Gineitis 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
A conversation is coming this week. Torino will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Match29 Aug 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Atalanta leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Uneasy
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Duván Zapata, 35, rolls back the years — 8.14
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.14 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market24 Aug 2026
Torino say no — this time
The offer from Giugliano for Rafael Melo 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.
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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of Alieu Njie has come up in conversations Torino were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market24 Aug 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Torino will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Franco Israel's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Squad24 Aug 2026
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Franco Israel knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Alieu Njie
“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.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
Pisa 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.
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Torino have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market17 Aug 2026
Torino bring in an old head
Berat Djimsiti is 33 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Torino training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Berat Djimsiti 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Pergolettese 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
Market10 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Franco Israel again, and this time the name on the line is Pisa. Torino are listening politely and promising nothing.
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
A move Reuven Niemeijer would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Reuven Niemeijer is living that version at Torino, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad10 Aug 2026
49 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market10 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Ardian Ismajli’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
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Steady
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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Pergolettese have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Zannetos Savva. The answer from Torino has not changed — yet.
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
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.