Torino in Turmoil

After a terrible season last season in a tight Div 4, Torino were relegated and many are saying that manager Michael Hudson “Huddo” was lucky to keep his job.   The gafer did take a 4 week holiday to travel Europe and his focus wasn’t totally on SM as he got a leave pass from the missus to do a Footy tour of Europe taking in some great games including Barcelona’s 1-1 draw with Atletico Madrid in front of 99k fans at the Nou Camp, Bayern Munich’s 3-1 win over Ingolstadt then on to Emirates for Arsenal finally breaking their hoodoo over Chelsea with a 3-0 demolition and the highlight being Liverpool’s 4-1 win over Leicester and the start of the great run that the Reds have been on at the opening of the new Main Stand in front of a full-house at Anfield. 

Back to reality and Huddo has promised Torino’s fans of a more attacking brand of football and so far Torino have begun life in Div 5 reasonably well with 3 wins and 2 draws after 5 games and put 14 goals in the back of the net.  Proving the gafer is committed to bring the Italian side back to Div 4.

Torino haven’t been that active in the transfer market with the main deal being Negredo arriving from Valencia with Menez and Pankov going the other way.  Another deal appears on the card with AC Milan and there is no Italian Mafia insider trading going on here I promise. 

In a complex deal Origi arrives along with some cash to add some youth and another attacking option to Torino with Baselli, Avelar and Barreca going to AC Milan.  It’s a big price we are paying but we are happy with the deal.

Manager Huddo has a managerial stipulation that it must be a top 6 finish or his fired, with many pundits tipping Torino to do well in Div 5 this season it should be ok for the Aussie to keep his job.  However, the same was said last season and we all know what happened there…..

Whatever does happen this season it should be a fun ride and asked if there was any club he would love to manage in T100 it would be Liverpool.  But Gino’s doing a great job there and I’m happy just being part of the T100 fabric and what is the best gameworld on SM hands down!!!