Don't be fooled by the standings and Torino's problems. "We find a quality team, capable, tough, prepared. A team that plays proactive football." Davide Nicola keeps his guard up high, charges Cagliari in view of tomorrow night's match and thus launches the challenge to his former team from the press room of the "Crai Sport Center" in Assemini. "We know that we must express our values to the fullest, that we must not live in peaks and that we must find, instead, a balance."
Five days to prepare for a match are more than enough, Nicola assures. "Given that we have more than eleven players to rely on." After "pepe" and "fame", here is the acronym used by the rossoblù coach for the challenge with the granata: "Cuore". Intended as "compactness and courage, unity, organization, resilience, effectiveness".
As for the market, Nicola passes the ball to Bonato and Giulini. «There is a DS who knows what the needs are and there is a president who has shown that he participates in building the team», he states and then points out: «Whoever comes, must know where they are coming from. Because the shirt is not a garment but a second skin and because they would find a team of values».
Gaetano? "Once he finds the spark, he must continue with the same intensity but also with the same lightheartedness." Mina? "I don't like him being identified as a provocateur because he is not at all," Nicola clarifies bluntly. "Yerry Mina is an absolutely fair player and a great professional who accepts the physical and mental duel."
