jordan Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 9 Canadians last night. Chung, Nelson, Osorio, Petrasso, Shaffelburg, Kerr, Thompson, Peruzza, MacNaughton maccaliam, Greatest Cockney Rip Off, YorkRegionFan and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metro Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 (edited) 14 hours ago, CanadianSoccerFan said: They should forget about wasting millions on Belotti. Jimenez has been an excellent signing. Yes, and Akinola is getting healthy too. I would say the biggest need Toronto needs right now is another holding midfielder. Things got hairy when Osorio had to leave the game and there is really not anyone in the bench that can adequately replace him or Bradley (subject to Priso's and Okello's availability). Edited April 17, 2022 by Metro Free kick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dyslexic nam Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 2 hours ago, Metro said: Yes, and Akinola is getting healthy too. I would say the biggest need Toronto needs right now is another holding midfielder. Things got hairy when Osorio had to leave the game and there is really not anyone in the bench that can adequately replace him or Bradley (subject to Priso's and Okello's availability). Was hoping to see Ayo get some sub minutes last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOcanadafan Posted April 18, 2022 Share Posted April 18, 2022 On 4/17/2022 at 12:19 AM, lbula17 said: Mavinga played a very solid match, hopefully he gets included in the XI more often . Agreed. My guess is we see him with Salcedo next game… and if we go a back 3, would much prefer MacNaughton over O’Neill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzie_the_parrot Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 (edited) On 4/17/2022 at 1:00 PM, jordan said: Rumours coming from Will Forbes are not rumours. What I was suggesting was it was Insigne or Belotti but not both. That means they were serious about it and it wasn't only a rumour. Just noticed this in my suggested reads on my phone though: So maybe it is still on the table. They would need to be able to buy down Salcedo out of DP territory. https://football-italia.net/belottis-future-unclear-between-serie-a-and-toronto-fc-interest/ ...Belotti is also appreciated abroad, with Newcastle United and West Ham both reportedly interested in signing him. The most passionate foreign side, however, is Toronto FC, Lorenzo Insigne’s new club. They’ve been insistent for the 28-year-old for months now and he may be keen for the financial reward that likely awaits him. Edited April 20, 2022 by Ozzie_the_parrot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordan Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 16 hours ago, Ozzie_the_parrot said: What I was suggesting was it was Insigne or Belotti but not both. That means they were serious about it and it wasn't only a rumour. Just noticed this in my suggested reads on my phone though: So maybe it is still on the table. They would need to be able to buy down Salcedo out of DP territory. https://football-italia.net/belottis-future-unclear-between-serie-a-and-toronto-fc-interest/ ...Belotti is also appreciated abroad, with Newcastle United and West Ham both reportedly interested in signing him. The most passionate foreign side, however, is Toronto FC, Lorenzo Insigne’s new club. They’ve been insistent for the 28-year-old for months now and he may be keen for the financial reward that likely awaits him. If it was one or the other, one wouldn’t have been name dropped after the other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingston Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 On 4/17/2022 at 7:03 AM, jordan said: 9 Canadians last night. Chung, Nelson, Osorio, Petrasso, Shaffelburg, Kerr, Thompson, Peruzza, MacNaughton I've been tracking the Canadian minutes. Last year, TFC had a total of 8393 minutes all season or 247 minutes per game. Almost half of those minutes were just Osorio and Laryea. After just seven games this season, they are at 3206 minutes or 458 minutes per game. So we're on pace for over 15 000 minutes. There's a pretty good spread of minutes across a dozen different players, and that's with Akinola yet to play at all this season due to injury. The best part is that the young Canadians are responding well to the playing time. You can almost see their development from game to game. A bunch are now penciled in starters and almost all our subs are Canadian, too. jordan, jonovision, Bison44 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bison44 Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 Kingston...I'm not sure if you have noticed but Corazon has been keeping an MLS wide, and I think a USL list for years if you want to check..hehehe without doing all that work, its even in a nice chart. Kingston 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 Nelson suspended now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingston Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 14 hours ago, narduch said: Nelson suspended now. I'm getting less and less fond of this whole VAR/post-game review stuff. I'm not objecting to Nelson being suspended. Just I'm actually starting to miss the whole "let's just play the game and accept that the ref will sometimes get things wrong" mechanism we used to have. I thought I'd prefer video review and all that because it would "always" get it right but I'm finding that less and less to be the case. Too much delay, too much after the fact rectification that doesn't actually rectify things. Like now where Nelson should presumably have been sent off. Fine, but that doesn't remove any plays he subsequently made against Philly that game. narduch and PastPros 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free kick Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 (edited) 4 hours ago, Kingston said: I'm getting less and less fond of this whole VAR/post-game review stuff. I'm not objecting to Nelson being suspended. Just I'm actually starting to miss the whole "let's just play the game and accept that the ref will sometimes get things wrong" mechanism we used to have. I thought I'd prefer video review and all that because it would "always" get it right but I'm finding that less and less to be the case. Too much delay, too much after the fact rectification that doesn't actually rectify things. Like now where Nelson should presumably have been sent off. Fine, but that doesn't remove any plays he subsequently made against Philly that game. We then would also have to accept corrupt refereeing. Like Byron Moreno, like the other ref's who helped the home side undeservedly reach the WC semi finals in 2002. Like some of the ref's that were bought off in some secondary leagues in Europe. Its very easy for someone or some entity with criminal leanings and financial means to buy a ref. Ref's don't get paid much and since the final outcome rests so much with one person, its easy to do. With a VAR team overseeing things, that becomes very hard to do. Mistakes are mistakes, thats ok but I will take VAR over any day over suspicious results. Edited April 21, 2022 by Free kick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metro Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 On 4/21/2022 at 1:40 PM, Free kick said: We then would also have to accept corrupt refereeing. Like Byron Moreno, like the other ref's who helped the home side undeservedly reach the WC semi finals in 2002. Like some of the ref's that were bought off in some secondary leagues in Europe. Its very easy for someone or some entity with criminal leanings and financial means to buy a ref. Ref's don't get paid much and since the final outcome rests so much with one person, its easy to do. With a VAR team overseeing things, that becomes very hard to do. Mistakes are mistakes, thats ok but I will take VAR over any day over suspicious results. For me, this was the #1 reason why I was in support of VAR when it was implemented and I have been a little surprised why it's not mentioned more often. Perhaps our viewpoints are influenced overall by the leagues we each follow... Free kick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gian-Luca Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 In addition to Nelson suspended, Bradley Sr reports that Priso, Okello and JMR all remain injured for the weekend game against NYCFC, while Osorio is questionable. Which leaves centre midfield really thin… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YorkRegionFan Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 6 hours ago, Gian-Luca said: In addition to Nelson suspended, Bradley Sr reports that Priso, Okello and JMR all remain injured for the weekend game against NYCFC, while Osorio is questionable. Which leaves centre midfield really thin… Do we know the nature of Okello's injury? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 16 hours ago, Gian-Luca said: In addition to Nelson suspended, Bradley Sr reports that Priso, Okello and JMR all remain injured for the weekend game against NYCFC, while Osorio is questionable. Which leaves centre midfield really thin… Surprised they haven't called anyone up from TFC II Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gian-Luca Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 10 hours ago, YorkRegionFan said: Do we know the nature of Okello's injury? MLS player availability lists it (and Priso’s) as “lower body”, but outside of that your guess is as good as mine. I wish in these media scrums the media would ask Bradley these types of questions instead of asking the variations of the same questions each week (which even Bradley Sr has started to point out). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cblake Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 16 hours ago, Gian-Luca said: In addition to Nelson suspended, Bradley Sr reports that Priso, Okello and JMR all remain injured for the weekend game against NYCFC, while Osorio is questionable. Which leaves centre midfield really thin… Wonder if we will see some more short term signings from TFC II as we have seen the last couple weeks with all those currently out. narduch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bison44 Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 Maybe a switch in formation rather than bring up TFC2 kids?? Go with 2 strikers, give Perruza a start..maybe.., its great for Kosi thompson and Petrasso though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Hombre Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 6 hours ago, Cblake said: Wonder if we will see some more short term signings from TFC II as we have seen the last couple weeks with all those currently out. narduch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bison44 Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 Soooo, they bring up 2 defenders?? Maybe push Shaff back up to wing?? Or is there another defender injury we dont know about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzie_the_parrot Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macksam Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 Oh man, that was some woeful defending from TFC. Mavinga, Bradley, Shaff on occasion, those were some school boy errors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dyslexic nam Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 That was the biggest defensive piece of shit I have see in a long time. MacNaughton may not be a world beater but he was light years ahead of where Mavinga was tonight. That was terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reggietfc Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 shaff should be learning the lb-lwb postion at tfc2, but it doesnt help when you have a out of postion mavinga beside you Mikmacdo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shway Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 Here's what we know about TFC roster: - They currently have 25 players signed of a potential 30. - 2 of those guys are on season long loans (Auro & Singh) making it only 23 guys. - Insignie is coming in June to 24. - Kobe Frankin, and Themi have used 2 out of 4 short term loan agreements (meaning they are likely to be given HG contracts soon) - A lot of the players who have played a part in the season so far are not on the senior roster. - TFC has a lot of salary cap to play with in bringing in additional talent. narduch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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