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Upbeat
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Michael Brentan pops up at the right end — 7.76
7.76, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Match3 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Torres do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Torres
Daniele Giorico and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Nicolò Antonelli 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
144% 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Torres rescue it on 94 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 94. Campobasso had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Adama Diakité did the work nobody counts — 6.88
9 combined actions and 6.88. 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
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Triumph
Match23 Sep 2026
Torres march on in the cup
Pontedera are out and Torres go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.30 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match26 Sep 2026
Torres make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Torres have 3 straight wins of it.
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
A row about effort at Torres
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Federico Pereyra was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Piero Solinas has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match26 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Lorenzo Di Stefano. 2‑0 against Carpi, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The dugout28 Sep 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. 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.
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Upbeat
Match19 Sep 2026
3‑0, and Giacomo Zecca took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Torres tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.27, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Up for the corner, and Michael Brentan delivers — 7.84
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Michael Brentan scored, was marked 7.84, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Torres
Nicolò Antonelli and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Federico Pereyra 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.
Transfer targets21 Sep 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.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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.
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Steady
Match12 Sep 2026
A 2-goal lead gone for Torres
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Forli kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Torres will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Torres
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nicolò Antonelli was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
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.
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.
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.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Arturo Greco 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Fabrizio Donati 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 8.22. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Torres.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Giacomo Zecca'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.
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Upbeat
Market7 Sep 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.91 for the rest of it.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 15 in, 0 out at Torres
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 15 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market7 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Michele Marano to Trapani has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Torres with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Torres
Giacomo Zecca and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Nicolò Antonelli 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Lazio have kept their man, and Torres go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match5 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Adama Diakité. 2‑0 against Pontedera, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.57 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Uneasy
Market31 Aug 2026
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.
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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Federico Pereyra 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Torres asked and Sampdoria said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Tommaso Bonaventura and Torres agree another 3 years.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.13 on the card, and the Torres support went home talking about one name.
Market31 Aug 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Torres will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
The dugout31 Aug 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.” Nicolò Vitale chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
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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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Torres
Adama Diakité and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Torres
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nicolò Antonelli was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Torres asked and Lecce said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Empoli: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
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.
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Steady
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Spezia, 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
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Virtus Entella is saying, and nobody at Torres is enjoying the guessing.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Torres
Nicolò Antonelli 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.
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
A row about effort at Torres
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matteo Baldi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Torres
6 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.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Torres say no — this time
The offer from Sorrento for Lorenzo Di Stefano 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.
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Federico Pereyra 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Bologna have kept their man, and Torres go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Raffaele Mancini 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. Ruggero Tarantino 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
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Tommaso Bonaventura 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Torres know which stage they are at.
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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
Adama Diakité was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Nicolò Antonelli 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sampdoria have kept their man, and Torres go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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 enquiry to Venezia: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.