“Here you are happy that I am the longest-serving, but in Turin they criticize me. Good thing I’m here, at least you cheer me up”: this is how the speech begins Urban Cairo at the Craft Fair in Milan, as revealed by Toro.it. “I joined Toro 19 years ago as a bankrupt…now we’ve been in the top 10 positions for years” the Granata president is keen to reiterate how proud he is of his work, suggesting that he finds the fans’ protests to be meaningless.” .
On the competition with the big teams: “With a turnover of 100 million a year it is impossible to compete with the big ones, who have a turnover of 400… the era of the great Turin was in the 1940s.” And then again on the fans: “I had a survey done and I saw that they are protestors who know in their hearts that if I were to leave Toro they would probably regret me, it’s like children with their fathers, sometimes they complain knowing that their father and mother love them.”
Yesterday, during the match against Napoli, yet another protest from the fans. Outside the stadium, every wall is covered with eloquent flyers: “Toro is passion and love, sell and go away, speculator!”. Inside the Olimpico Grande Torino, however, the organized Granata supporters showed a series of banners with various writings (which you can read in the photo below) and one eloquent one above all the others: “These are your satisfactions. .. Ours?