TURIN – We don’t play hide and seek anymore. Not now, not after the performance at San Siro, not after a period in which Toro instead of shifting into fifth gear went into reverse. The only ones so far always protected from any criticism have been the players. The only ones who have never ended up in the dock, the only ones who go onto the pitch and who have the task of converting the efforts made by the club and the technical staff. The match against Inter – but above all the terrible misstep against Frosinone – once and for all strips the team of any alibi. Too many elements that should have guaranteed the leap in quality disappeared during crucial events. Even pawns who on paper would have the means to lead Toro to compete for a European placement until the last day: an ambition postponed until a later date. In the last period many have failed, but the flops have not had the same prominence as the club’s market errors and Juric’s clumsy moves. The names of the accused are found in practically every department. The least flashy is captain Ricardo Rodriguez, which is living on an income after two and a half excellent years, but which in recent weeks has been in a clear pre-European conservative mood. In midfield Ivan Ilic is responsible for leading the group of failed players: the mitigating factor of the difficult return after the injury weighs up to a certain point, because from someone like him it is reasonable to expect much more. Nonot so much by virtue of the 16 million spent by Cairoas for the responsibilities that Juric gave him and that the Serbian never took on.
The situations
Mashed potato Nikola Vlasic he’s not joking. The recent unwatchable evidence lends itself to those who consider him overrated par excellence. This is not the case: the value of Croatian is not discussed, but one does not live on good memories scattered here and there. If it is true that the Bull changes face when he lights up, then it is better that the intermittency gives way to a continuity never had under the Mole. And it’s serious, because even in this case Cairo spent and Juric put his face into it. In attack any reference to Tony Sanabria it’s purely intentional: truly impalpable this season. And to think that it should have been the year of consecration, after the excellent last championship. In Italy he had never done so badly: he too will have to ask himself two questions, instead of getting excited next to Zapata it liquefied. As Pietro Pellegri, who at 23 years old has a sadly limited history of races played. The bad luck with him is clear, but he needs to help himself more, otherwise there is the risk that he will soon become a meteor in our football.
Shoot up Lovato and Okereke would really be too easy an exercise, but from Koffi Djidji, Mergim Vojvoda And Valentino Lazaro a greater contribution was desirable. The latter made the Inter fans laugh at the San Siro, relieved at the idea of no longer having him on the payroll. Even the discontinuity of Samuele Ricci And Vanja Milinkovic-Savic it represented one of the many problems of Toro, whose squad costs just over 11 million compared to that of Bologna. There’s something to cry about.
