Despite the words of Torino president Urbano Cairo earlier today, numerous outlets including La Repubblica and Turin-based newspaper La Stampa, have reported that Torino’s Gianluca Petrachi will be the new sporting director of AS Roma as of 1 July. The formal signatures are still needed, but the current sporting director of the Granata will leave his post at the end of the season to become the new head of the Giallorossi sporting project.