Torino, Gianluca Petrachi reveals what happened with Urbano Cairo

Gianluca Petrachi, former sporting director of Torino, spoke to Sportitalia about his relationship with Urbano Cairo: “Sometimes fatigue sets in, and as in all couples there are up moments and down moments”.

“He thought that I was settling with some team before the championship was over, actually it was not like that. There had been some bargains but nothing more than that also because I was playing for Europe, which we then got”.

“He saw it as a betrayal and the clarification had served little purpose. I had gone my way, he had gone his. We had been four years without speaking to each other, there was a little rapprochement when Sinisa Mihajlovic died, then last year we clarified, there was an apology, and that pleased me enormously because he understood that I had behaved honestly”.

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“Now he saw it as a betrayal and he saw it as a betrayal.

“Now we talk to each other, laugh, joke, and talk about soccer. I also told him that now he has to decide what he wants to do, in the sense that Turin is tired. Either he really tries to do something special by putting his all into taking Torino to Europe or he has to make evaluations because such a hostile climate towards him has become very heavy and it doesn”.