From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad22 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Wilson Eduardo out for 14 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Torres will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market22 Feb 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 Torres can pretend not to have heard.
Market22 Feb 2027
Only the photograph left for Michele Marano
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Michele Marano will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Torres the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Torres
Wilson Eduardo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Michael Brentan
“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.
Match20 Feb 2027
Gubbio left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
The team sheet said everything about Giuseppe Mastinu
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Giuseppe Mastinu.
The dugout22 Feb 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 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Gabriele Zangari to a room that had heard them before.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Steady
Squad15 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Wilson Eduardo out for 21 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Torres will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match13 Feb 2027
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Market15 Feb 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 ratings15 Feb 2027
A defender's goal wins it for Torres — 7.92
1 for Michael Brentan, marked 7.92, 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Torres
Giuseppe Mastinu 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Torres
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Cristian Fabriani was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Daniele Giorico, and the manager let it.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Marked 7.98. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Uneasy
Squad8 Feb 2027
28 days out for Wilson Eduardo after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Torres will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market8 Feb 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 Torres can pretend not to have heard.
Market8 Feb 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Torres have lost him in all but the paperwork.
The dugout8 Feb 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
So close: Adama Diakité’s move dies late
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Cremonese moved on, Adama Diakité reports back to Torres, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Market8 Feb 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Torres is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
The deal with Hellas Verona is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Torres
Wilson Eduardo 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.
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Uneasy
Squad1 Feb 2027
36 days out for Wilson Eduardo after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Torres will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market1 Feb 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
Add another name to the list: Cremonese have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Adama Diakité. The answer from Torres has not changed — yet.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Deadline passes with 1 signed and 1 gone
That is the business done at Torres until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
The deal with Empoli is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Match30 Jan 2027
The drought breaks for Torres
6 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Guidonia Montecelio were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Hellas Verona have kept their man, and Torres go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad1 Feb 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 Torres this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match30 Jan 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Giacomo Zecca. 1‑0 against Guidonia Montecelio, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
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Crisis
Squad25 Jan 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 44 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market25 Jan 2027
Adama Diakité 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 Torres can pretend not to have heard.
Market25 Jan 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Crotone waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Torres is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Match23 Jan 2027
No end in sight to Torres's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Torres has to find a result from somewhere.
Market25 Jan 2027
Michele Marano has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Torres they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Torres
Salvatore Burrai and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Daniele Sorrentino, and the manager let it.
Match23 Jan 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Crisis
Squad18 Jan 2027
20 days out for Nicolò Antonelli after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Torres will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market18 Jan 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Torres, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match16 Jan 2027
5 matches without a win for Torres
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Torres are no longer polite ones.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Everything agreed with Hellas Verona, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Torres
Salvatore Burrai 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Cristian Fabriani and Torres agree another 4 years.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Empoli have kept their man, and Torres go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match16 Jan 2027
Alberto Lunghi scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Spezia, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrea Zaccagno, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Squad11 Jan 2027
27 days out for Nicolò Antonelli after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Torres will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market11 Jan 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Crotone waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Torres is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
The deal with Bologna is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Market11 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Match9 Jan 2027
No end in sight to Torres's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Torres has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Daniele Sorrentino and Torres agree another 3 years.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Torres
Lorenzo Di Stefano and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market11 Jan 2027
Michael Brentan is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Torres has been clear about where Michael Brentan stands, which is more than many ever get.
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Crisis
Squad4 Jan 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 35 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
A brace, and Adama Diakité takes the afternoon — 8.70
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Adama Diakité provided it, and the 8.70 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market4 Jan 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 ratings4 Jan 2027
A defender's goal wins it for Torres — 7.05
1 for Michael Brentan, marked 7.05, 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.
Match2 Jan 2027
Vis Pesaro left with the points after a 3‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Match2 Jan 2027
Adama Diakité among the goals in a wild afternoon
7 goals in one match, Adama Diakité on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Torres and Vis Pesaro.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Torres are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Torres asked and Hellas Verona said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad4 Jan 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 Torres this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Uneasy
Squad28 Dec 2026
43 days out for Nicolò Antonelli after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Torres will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad28 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 Torres this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Torres training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cristian Fabriani 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.
Match28 Dec 2026
Torres at the halfway mark
Half the programme played, position 10, 15 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages swallow 103% of the Torres 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.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Francesco Nunziatini, and the manager let it.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Gabriele Zangari after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Chances created: 10. Not on the scoresheet and not remotely anonymous — a passing performance that pulled a defence apart without leaving a mark on the column that gets read.
Match26 Dec 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Sambenedettese came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
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Crisis
Squad21 Dec 2026
50 days out for Nicolò Antonelli after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Torres will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market21 Dec 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Torres can pretend not to have heard.
Market21 Dec 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Torres is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad21 Dec 2026
At 18 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Torres
Wilson Eduardo 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
Pineto left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Daniele Giorico
“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 dugout21 Dec 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Torres told Matteo Liviero something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 57 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match12 Dec 2026
The drought breaks for Torres
10 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Campobasso were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
At 39 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.93, and nobody on the pitch better.
Match12 Dec 2026
A 1‑0 win over Campobasso, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Torres
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Cristian Fabriani was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Too much change too quickly at Torres
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Chances created: 10. Nothing on the scoresheet and everything in the match: the pass before the pass, over and over, until the defence stopped guessing right.
Squad14 Dec 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Torres have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
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Crisis
Squad7 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 64 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match5 Dec 2026
10 matches without a win for Torres
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Torres are no longer polite ones.
The dugout7 Dec 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
4 matches without a goal for Torres
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad7 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 Torres this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match5 Dec 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrea Zaccagno, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Torres
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Cristian Fabriani was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Cristian Bunino and Torres agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Crisis
Squad30 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 71 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match28 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Torres's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Torres has to find a result from somewhere.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Torres have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Torres
Salvatore Burrai and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match28 Nov 2026
Torres cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Match28 Nov 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Riccardo Idda, and the manager let it.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
101% of the income goes out in wages at Torres
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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
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 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Gabriele Zangari to a room that had heard them before.
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Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Nicolò Antonelli out for 78 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Torres will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match21 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for Torres
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.
Market23 Nov 2026
Michele Marano has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Torres they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad23 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 Torres this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Michael Brentan, and the manager let it.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Cristian Fabriani 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 dugout23 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Gabriele Zangari chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Matteo Liviero
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
Match21 Nov 2026
Point won or two lost for Torres?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Forli? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Nicolò Antonelli out for 85 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Torres will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Torres
Wilson Eduardo 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Torres training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cristian Fabriani 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Michael Brentan trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Cristian Bunino has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Torres 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.
Market16 Nov 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Torres know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Torres. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
9 appearances at Crotone and the goals keep coming. Torres are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A season on the outside for Diego Cerón
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Torres has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
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Crisis
Squad9 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Nicolò Antonelli out for 92 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Torres will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match4 Nov 2026
Torres bow out of the cup
Pescara go through and Torres go home, 1‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market9 Nov 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
7 matches without a win for Torres
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Torres are no longer polite ones.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Torres
Giuseppe Mastinu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match7 Nov 2026
A bad afternoon for Torres against Perugia
0‑1 to Perugia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout9 Nov 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Gabriele Zangari left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Torres 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.
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Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
99 days out for Nicolò Antonelli after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Torres will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match31 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Torres's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Torres has to find a result from somewhere.
Match31 Oct 2026
Torres cannot find the net
5 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Transfer targets2 Nov 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A move Hasan Ege Akdoğan 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. Hasan Ege Akdoğan is living that version at Torres, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Wilson Eduardo and Torres agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Torres
Alberto Lunghi 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
101% of the income goes out in wages at Torres
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.
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Nicolò Antonelli out for 107 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Torres will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Torres have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market26 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Michele Marano
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Michele Marano will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Torres the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match24 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Torres
4 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Torres
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Torres can tell you which week it ends in.
Player ratings26 Oct 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Torres training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cristian Fabriani 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Andrea Zaccagno is on it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Torres
Diego Cerón and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Crisis
Squad19 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Nicolò Antonelli out for 115 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Torres will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match17 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Torres
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Torres can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Torres
Matteo Baldi 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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Andrea Zaccagno
“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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Pianese left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
9 combined actions and 6.69. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Gabriele Zangari left the room before anybody could ask which.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
122 days out for Nicolò Antonelli after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Torres will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Torres
Alessandro Masala 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Cristian Fabriani 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Salvatore Burrai commits to Torres for another 2 years.
The dugout12 Oct 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
Torres bring in an old head
Salvatore Burrai is 39 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
Experience through the door at Torres
Diego Cerón arrives at 35 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
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.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
5 appearances away from home and 4 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 131 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Torres
Alessandro Masala 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages swallow 131% of the Torres 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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alberto Lunghi, and the manager let it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” George Corral and Torres agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Torres
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A mark of 7.28, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Gabriele Zangari chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Daniele Giorico
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
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Upbeat
Match23 Sep 2026
Torres march on in the cup
Pianese are out and Torres go through, 3‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.73, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Alessandro Ciardi, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 8.05
A mark of 8.05 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.
Market28 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Michele Marano
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Michele Marano will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Torres the goodbyes have quietly begun.
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.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
At 19 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Gabriele Zangari after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
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Upbeat
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Torres
Alessandro Masala and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match19 Sep 2026
Spezia made Torres work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Riccardo Idda
“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 ratings21 Sep 2026
Both jobs done by Mattia Sala — 6.79
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 9 actions, 6.79, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 7.77 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Torres had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Gabriele Zangari, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
Ravenna next, and one man in the Torres dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The plan did not have a place for Riccardo Idda
Nobody at Torres is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Daniele Sorrentino has written the date down.
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Steady
Market14 Sep 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Giuseppe Mastinu, 34, rolls back the years — 7.88
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.88 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market14 Sep 2026
Lecco 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout14 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Gabriele Zangari after 2‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Looking ahead14 Sep 2026
Spezia next, and one man in the Torres dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The one goal every signing is asked about until it comes. It has come, and a press-conference question has been retired.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Upbeat
Market7 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Torres, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 13 in, 0 out at Torres
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 13 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
$660.0K was the most the club would pay and Cremonese were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Torres, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Michael Brentan has moved up it.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
Livorno next, and one man in the Torres dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A new face in his position and a shirt he thought he owned suddenly up for discussion. Torres have promised nothing, which is what clubs promise at this stage.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
Looking ahead: Livorno at home
A side in position 5 visits next. The result will not make anybody’s season and it could quietly break the shape of one, which is why the manager has been watching the video since Sunday.
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Triumph
Market31 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Lecco waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Torres is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market31 Aug 2026
Cristian Frau 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 Torres can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Torres have gone to Cremonese with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Parma, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Match29 Aug 2026
Three points for Torres, 1‑0 the final word against Vis Pesaro in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 7.84. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
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.” Gabriele Zangari kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Torres training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cristian Frau 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.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Torres can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Borussia Dortmund is saying, and nobody at Torres is enjoying the guessing.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Torres asked and Parma said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Torres turn down the training-ground plan
It is the quietest way a club tells you what its ambitions are. The money was asked for, the money was refused, and the people who work there every day now know exactly where they stand.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Torres
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Cristian Frau was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Looking ahead24 Aug 2026
Looking ahead: Vis Pesaro at home
A side in position 9 visits next. The result will not make anybody’s season and it could quietly break the shape of one, which is why the manager has been watching the video since Sunday.
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Steady
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Torres
Alberto Lunghi 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Benfica 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.
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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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Torres asked and FC Nantes said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Torres
Alberto Lunghi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout10 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Bruno Costantini is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Antonio Rossi 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Tommaso De Luca is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Tiziano Sala 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to LOSC Lille: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
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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
Words exchanged at Torres
Alberto Lunghi 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Andrea Zaccagno’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for José Neto is in the works
Torres have made the call to Benfica. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
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.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Torres, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Torres training over how hard people work
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Market
Michele Marano is free to find somewhere else
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Squad
A wage question at Torres