What should have been a fairly innocent loan deal has become one of the goalkeeping sagas of the season.
When Claudio Bravo drops a howler, Joe Hart is all that anyone can talk about.
If Bravo misjudges a cross, it's "Joe Hart would have caught that."
If Bravo gets sent off, it's "Joe Hart must be laughing now."
And, apparently, Bravo's name also crops right up whenever the England international cocks up.
Having enjoyed a relatively uneventful start to life in Italy, Hart came up with one of the worst mistakes of his Torino career on Wednesday night.
https://twitter.com/tancredipalmeri/status/791360748710748161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
The 'keeper, on loan from Manchester City, came out trying to close down the onrushing Mauro Icardi and, having seemingly reached the ball first, Hart bizarrely parried it directly against the striker rather than simply take it into his grasp.
It was a strange sequence of play, and one that resulted in Torino falling behind to Inter.
But at least we learned that the Bravo/Hart dynamic also works when the latter makes a mess of things.
https://twitter.com/Vibetech_/status/791359946310967296
https://twitter.com/Sam_wood96/status/791360943439634433
https://twitter.com/wynnyesta/status/791361250399846400
https://twitter.com/danohagan/status/791361035215237121
https://twitter.com/SGF96/status/791361363079794688
https://twitter.com/OfflineMartinez/status/791361499994415104
https://twitter.com/EIFantasmita/status/791361669041647618
https://twitter.com/GeoffLacey91/status/791361738952306688
https://twitter.com/___mavis/status/791363172967911424
https://twitter.com/andyuptherae/status/791365899601207296
https://twitter.com/Gurdev_AV/status/791365635930525696
Maybe put in a pin in Hart returning from loan just yet.
Of course, as one person puts it, we doubt Joe is too fussed about the form of Bravo anyway...
https://twitter.com/Ankaman616/status/788832462642249728
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