JOE HART HAS completed a season-long loan deal to join Torino after falling out of favour with new Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola.
The England goalkeeper found himself second choice behind Willy Caballero for City’s opening games of 2016/17, with Claudio Bravo’s arrival from Barcelona seemingly demoting Hart to third choice.
Hart arrived in Turin on Tuesday, with the loan moved confirmed on transfer deadline day.
“Suddenly my career has undergone a change, and I took it as a sign of destiny and I had to do something,” he told the official Torino website.
“The selection of Torino has come at the right time and in the right way. I am very happy to be able to compete in a beautiful and difficult league like Serie A.
Italian goalkeeping is recognised throughout the world, so I am convinced I can still learn a lot here.
“This is why I immediately accepted with great enthusiasm the proposal of [club president, Urbano] Cairo.
“In the staff I already know [Attilio] Lombardo, who I worked with in Manchester and won, so we hope to relive many beautiful emotions together.
I read some interviews about Torino. The coach wants players who are humble and have ambition. I really like this too, that’s how I want to be.
Hart was made captain for City’s Champions League play-off game against Steaua Bucharest last week and bade an emotional farewell to the club’s supporters.
The 29-year-old will now have a chance to prove himself again after a pair of high-profile errors on international duty with England at Euro 2016.
England and Hart, capped 63 times for his country, face Slovakia in a World Cup qualifier on Sunday in what will be Sam Allardyce’s first match in charge of the national team.
Hart could then make his Serie A debut for Torino at Atalanta on 11 September .
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Very young for this role but fair play to him a fine hurler
@Finnster: don’t know how he got young hurler of the year , won nothing was taken off in most senior games .Jake Morris won 2 All Ireland’s and made a massive contribution in both , makes me wonder
@Martin: Ha good man Martin. In 2014 Kilkenny went unbeaten, won every competition and still got less all stars.
Mullen got taken off in 2 games the final when he was clearly not right and the leinster 2nd round game with 4 mins to go and he fell awkwardly.
Jake Morris got 3 point in the Munster final, AI quarter, Semi and Final combined. Mullen got 4 vs Limerick in semi alone.
@Shay Lawlor: Facts isn’t his strong point.
@Shay Lawlor: and Mullen won what ?
Rewarding failure is a bad road to go down . Time to get over 2014 now I think
@Martin: it’s young hurler of the year. Not which young hurler played on the better team. Your argument is silly
@thomas walsh: Morris made a massive contribution to both All Ireland winning teams but only in my humble opinion , so sorry if that’s a silly argument
Why not pick a starter instead of a couple of subs
@Martin: they pick the captain a different way in Kilkenny
@Paddy: they should have gave TJ another go 3rd time lucky and all that
@Martin: all the luck in the world isn’t going to swing an AI for this Kilkenny group. They’re really very average and I would rank them probably at 6 in the pecking order. Not Cody’s fault , it’s just the supply line has dried up.
@Johnny B: I’ve seen them written off too many times before , I know they don’t get away with what they used to but ask Limerick they had them beaten a point a man in 2018
@Martin: didn’t do much good come the final, never write off a Kilkenny team managed by Cody, but this one certainly doesn’t carry the same fear factor as previous teams. Aura is gone, for now at least.
@Martin: Get away with what ?
@Now or Never: Still have limericks number
@Barry Dowling: the blatant dirt and hatchet men , referees fear of Cody . That’s all . Well documented by Loughnane
@Martin: Loughnane waffles a lot about kilkenny. Thats well “documented”
Very young fir this role but fair play to him a fine hurler