Turin, everything about Vanoli. Adams next to Zapata

With the Juric era over, Torino starts again with Paolo Vanoli, the new coach who, already during his presentation, chose to show his corporate side, to the delight of president Urbano Cairo. "The experience I had abroad - he said - gave me a final step, to make me understand what a manager is. I therefore think that today I have to manage, together with the director, the president's company, bringing results".

Without particular investments ("I am ambitious, but I don't think it's a fault that I don't have 50 million to put into Torino every year", Cairo dixit) but with various bets, Vanoli will also have to make a virtue of necessity, because Ricardo Rodriguez and Alessandro Bongiorno cannot be replaced so easily and, in fact, the place of the central defender who moved to Napoli will be taken by Saul Coco, purchased from Las Palmas, yet to be discovered in the Italian championship.

In attack, the new face is that of Ché Adams, a 28-year-old Scot coming (as a free agent) from Southampton, with 25 goals in the Premier League behind him. After Aldan McQueen in 1908 and Jack Diment in 1909, Scottish grenades of the early days, the arrival of Adams brings us back, at least in terms of suggestion, to Denis Law, still in the memory and myth of the fans despite having only played one season at Toro ( 1961-62, scoring 10 league goals), before becoming a Manchester City legend.

Zapata will be the new captain and, after the 12 goals of last season, he will be joined by the former Southampton player and the two will have to turn into gold the balls resulting from the game of Vanoli who, in the last two years in Venice, has been able to give his offensive reference, Pohjanpalo, a lot of opportunities.

lorenzo longhi