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Steady
Match23 Sep 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Alberto Lunghi obliged against Pontedera. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Torres.
Squad28 Sep 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.
Squad28 Sep 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 Torres this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Torres training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giuseppe Mastinu 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 ratings28 Sep 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 Sep 2026
Alberto Lunghi was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.85. 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.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad28 Sep 2026
David Crespo 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Lorenzo Di Stefano’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Torres.
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Crisis
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match19 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Torres
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Torres are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Torres
Nicolò Antonelli 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
Pierre-Yves Hamel 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad21 Sep 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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Uneasy
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 7.94, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Sep 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 Torres this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match12 Sep 2026
6 goals as Torres and Forli go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Torres and Forli, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Torres training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pierre-Yves Hamel 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nicolò Antonelli, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
David Crespo has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Torres know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Match12 Sep 2026
It needed Pierre-Yves Hamel to find the net to bring anything home at all: 3‑3 against Forli, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Loan watch14 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 Torres, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
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Uneasy
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
The Torres board want somebody sold
The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Torres
Jonatan Reis 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
Giuseppe Mastinu 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Jonatan Reis 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Giacomo Zecca was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.18. 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Match5 Sep 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A mark of 5.29 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
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Uneasy
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. 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
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Torres this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Torres training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giuseppe Mastinu 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.
Squad31 Aug 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Pablo Alza
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Torres will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Match29 Aug 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 4.56, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
Market31 Aug 2026
The name of Adama Diakité keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Torres say nothing, which says plenty.
Market31 Aug 2026
Nobody sells a season ticket on a signing like this. Every manager who has been through a bad October wants one anyway, and Torres have gone and got theirs early.
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Torres
Nicolò Antonelli 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.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
4 academy players handed senior numbers at Torres
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Torres training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Adama Diakité 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Michele Andreoli 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Cesare Iannuzzi 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Samuele Colombo 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.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
Cremonese come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Torres did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad17 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 Torres this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Torres would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Lorenzo Di Stefano and Torres agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 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 Torres this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Andrea Zaccagno has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Torres.
Squad10 Aug 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Jonatan Reis
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Torres will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
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.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Giuseppe Mastinu and Torres agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Torres
Nicolò Antonelli 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
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Torres have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Torres training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giacomo Zecca 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
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Torres has been clear about where Giuseppe Mastinu stands, which is more than many ever get.
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.