Vanoli at risk of exemption. The match against Monza was decisive

Whether the rumors of Paolo Vanoli’s possible dismissal are true or not, results count in football and, once the national team break is over, if Torino doesn’t take home the three points against Monza, the Varese coach will have the destiny already sealed. They matter little reassurances that have been conveyed in the press in recent hours throughout the environment, President Cairo and CEO Vagnati. So far understood and appreciated by the Granata fans who recognize their professional commitment and intellectual honesty, despite the club having set up a weaker team than last year’s, without adequate replacements and above all with the surprise of the sale of Bellanova, Vanoli he would risk paying a high price for the impact with the top category and above all for the inadequacy of a club that will really struggle to save itself this year.

Vanoli is an ambitious and prepared coach but he is discovering firsthand that Turin is not Venice and that the ownership, which has long been heavily contested by the fans, is not exactly what a coach would hope to have behind him. Let’s also add a dose of inexperience and a lack of nastiness towards those players without personality or with little humility, and here’s the omelette. To definitively complete the picture is the series of injuries that plague the team, deprived for more than a year of central defender Schuurs, who in the company’s plans should have taken the place of Buongiorno, and then for a few weeks also of Duvan Zapata, the player symbol of this formation. But, to be objective, Turin’s crisis actually began a long time ago: the Colombian was still there when the Granata were eliminated by Empoli in the Italian Cup and then lost to Lazio and Inter.

Once the captain left the scene, the team literally collapsed in terms of play and intensity, collecting further defeats in the series, interrupted only by the undeserved victory over Como. Some players are unrecognizable, others take to the field gripped by fear, still others seem like amateurs lined up in formation just to make up the numbers. It is legitimate to ask whether Vanoli still has the team in his hands, whether he has solutions in hand to make a change or whether he too has been overwhelmed by the general chaos in the midst of so much depression.

The results count, it was said: after Monza, there is the other home match against league leaders Napoli and then two consecutive away games that are no laughing matter, against Genoa and Empoli, teams used to fighting for survival and playing with the right malice , traditionally difficult fields for the garnet colors (especially the Tuscan one). Torino is taking slaps from everyone, without showing the slightest reaction. Cairo and Vagnati, when things get worse, disappear from the radar, when they would be quicker to admit that they did everything (absolutely everything) wrong. And the patron, who will soon be the longest-serving in Granata history, should really think about the opportunity to leave because the cosmic nothingness that characterized his 19 years of presidency will remain engraved in the memory of Toro fans. .