From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match7 Nov 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
10 matches without a goal for Torres
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 10 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match9 Nov 2026
Every point is an argument now for Torres
Position 16 and 3 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Cristian Fabriani and Torres agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad9 Nov 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.
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
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.
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 Vincenzo Trevisan left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Crisis
Match31 Oct 2026
9 matches without a win for Torres
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Torres are no longer polite ones.
Match31 Oct 2026
Chastening afternoon for Torres
A 0‑3 beating by Gubbio was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Match31 Oct 2026
9 matches without a goal for Torres
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 9 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Market2 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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Samuel Gamwo gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Samuel Gamwo has just signed for Torres, and for once the answer mattered.
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.
Market2 Nov 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Giacomo Zecca has his answer from Torres; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
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.
In brief
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Boardroom
Wages swallow 110% of the Torres income
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Boardroom
Nobody left the Torres dressing room in a hurry
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Squad
Samuel Gamwo stays put
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Uneasy
Match24 Oct 2026
8 matches without a win for Torres
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Torres are no longer polite ones.
Match24 Oct 2026
8 matches without a goal for Torres
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 8 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
The dugout26 Oct 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matteo Liviero, and the manager let it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Giacomo Zecca knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Torres, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Torres
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mamadou Kebbeh was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match24 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Latina will be the happier side with the point.
Looking ahead26 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Gubbio in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Uneasy
Match17 Oct 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
7 matches without a goal for Torres
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 7 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 37, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Giacomo Zecca
“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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Fabio Tito and Torres agree another 2 years.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Torres
Nelson Seguel and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Vincenzo Trevisan was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Torres dressing room was either.
Squad19 Oct 2026
No place for Nelson Seguel in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Torres are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
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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Uneasy
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
Everybody at Torres saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 34 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Umberto Germano and Torres agree another 2 years.
Squad12 Oct 2026
5 new faces, and Torres are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Market12 Oct 2026
Torres bring in an old head
Nelson Seguel is 35 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
Torres bring in an old head
Umberto Germano is 34 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.
The dugout12 Oct 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 Riccardo Idda has written the date down.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Danilo Petriccione trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Crisis
Match3 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Torres
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.
Match3 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Torres
6 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.
Squad5 Oct 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Guidonia Montecelio left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout5 Oct 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
139% 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 dugout5 Oct 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Torres will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
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Uneasy
Match23 Sep 2026
The small margins put Torres out
Out, 0‑2 to Pianese, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Match26 Sep 2026
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.
Match26 Sep 2026
5 matches without a goal for Torres
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 5 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
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 dugout28 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Vincenzo Trevisan after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The form table has caught Mattia Sala
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
The dugout28 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Ravenna defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Crisis
Match19 Sep 2026
Chastening afternoon for Torres
A 0‑3 beating by Spezia was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Match19 Sep 2026
3 matches without a goal for Torres
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.
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.
The dugout21 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.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
Nobody left the Torres 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Vincenzo Trevisan after 0‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout21 Sep 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.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Francesco Corsinelli’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Torres needing him to play as if none of it matters.
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.
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Crisis
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.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Udinese have kept their man, and Torres go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match12 Sep 2026
Livorno left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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
“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 dugout14 Sep 2026
Michael Brentan asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Looking ahead14 Sep 2026
The leaders are next for Torres
Spezia top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Mattia Sala dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Looking ahead14 Sep 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Giuseppe Mastinu’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Torres needing him to play as if none of it matters.
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Uneasy
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: 10 in, 0 out at Torres
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 10 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market7 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Torres will try again when the window opens; Cremonese may not be selling by then.
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
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Livorno in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
Looking ahead: Livorno at home
A side in position 11 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Individual work, away from the group, aimed at one specific thing the coaches think is holding him back. It rarely makes the news and it is how most improvement actually happens.
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Crisis
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
The deal with Cremonese 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Torres say no — this time
The offer from Sportist Svoge for Danilo Petriccione 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sporting CP have kept their man, and Torres go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match29 Aug 2026
0‑2 to Vis Pesaro, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout31 Aug 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.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Torres training over how hard people work
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The dugout
No place in the plan for Riccardo Idda
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Squad
A wage question at Torres
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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
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: PAOK keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets24 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.
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Steady
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with PAOK, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Udinese have kept their man, and Torres go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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.
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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
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Cremonese have kept their man, and Torres go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Tommaso Ferrari 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
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mattia Bruni 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Filippo Caruso 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
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mariano Brambilla 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.
Squad10 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.
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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.
Transfer targets3 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.
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.
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