Turin, fans protest: "Cairo, leave"

Turin, 26 August 2024 – Sunday was certainly a positive day for the Turin, who defeated Atalanta 2-1 at home thanks to goals from Ilic and Adams and a penalty saved at the last minute by goalkeeper Milinkovic-Savic. However, shortly before the start of the match, a protest took place in front of the Grande Torino stadium by 10 thousand granata supporters, who did not at all accept the choice of president Urbano Cairo to sell a valuable piece like Raoul Bellanova, right in the direction of Atalanta.

What a protest in Cairo: "Go away"

The market moves of Turin they were different and certainly aimed at the new tactical scheme of vanilla: Coco arrived in defense, Borna Sosa and Pedersen on the wings and Adams in attack, as well as Paleari and Antonio Donnarumma to complete the trio of goalkeepers, but the Granata, on the other hand, deprived themselves of important players like Good morning e Bellanova. The transfer of the latter was the "straw that broke the camel's back", triggering anger and frustration on the part of the Toro fans, who welcomed yet another valuable piece of the squad at the expense of a big player. The fans, gathered in front of the Grande Torino stadium, displayed several banners with the words "Cairo go away!", and outside the sports center Philadelphia the ultras displayed another banner reading “Ambitions of a certain level? The same old refrain for 19 years. We are not for sale." The message from the ultras is clear: it is enough to sell the prized prices of the squad and continue to navigate in the middle areas of the table, the supporters want the leap in quality of a club that has 7 championships and 5 Italian Cups in its palmares. Even mister vanilla he was not at all happy with the sale of Bellanova and, despite reiterating in the press conference his desire not to create alibis and to continue on his own path, he did not fail to send a message to the owners, especially because the right winger would have been sold without his knowledge. “Mediocrity bothers me, I told the members of this club to have more courage,” continued the coach, who, despite everything, said he was proud of the first month he spent as coach of Torino, and yesterday's victory against Atalanta certifies what the coach said. However, this does not detract from the relationship between the fans and the president Cairo is anything but peaceful.

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