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Yeah, our young players have zero confidence in their passing. Every time someone under age 25 touched the ball agianst Orlando, it went backwards. It was very frustrating to watch, as I know it's...

It's not just fatigue from the constant 7-on-7s. Heath Pierce made the point on his podcast with Jimmy Conrad that Bob's personality just wears people down after two or three years of intensity,...

Not in scouting. A lot of MLS runs on who you know and who they know. It's why some teams have leaped ahead in terms of the quality of their middle-range salary foreign players.

And we quite...

I very much get the sense that Hernandez is following Vanney's blueprint more than Ali/Bob's. He wants evidence-based decisions, which hasn't been the case in a long time.

I suspect he'll be in tough. It's not so much that they want a first team coach; I think they want someone who has had success without needing to spend a ton, and has been able to shape the team...

I was told quite specifically "we're looking domestic first, and at several up-and-comers." So it sounds very much like either a first-time MLS coach (I think they want another Nancy or Sartini) or a...

Waking The Red has a story up on it.

https://wakingthered.com/2023/06/27/11481/bill-manning-apologizes-to-toronto-fc-fans-after-bob-bradley-firing-we-should-be-better/

Sounds like they're...

Got a link?

It's available without the paywall. Was yesterday, anyway. If not, just Google TFC and the non-star version from one of its smaller papers is on Google news.

I mean, basically repeats a lot of...

Now they sing the chorus to their waistlines. (Actually, Barlow's still pretty fit. One of them looks like Nobby Styles in his forties.)

Ah, but will you accompany it with a music video?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2ICtCO8TCw
https://youtu.be/N2ICtCO8TCw

On the bright side, I suspect they will at least try to make a move in the July window. Between the bodies and the fact that most of their spend is on the two DPs, there may be some internal...

So I talked to my team source again. The general sentiment is that Manning recognizes what's going on, they recognize the player mix and tactics aren't working but they're going to keep working on...

Really worrying from that Singh piece that they thought the youth players had real value.

It basically means Manning has paid no attention to the actual football, the actual development, and was...

My sense is this is more he's too trusting. He gave Ali carte blanche under the mantra if you hire good people, you let them do their job. He's done the same for Bob.

His likely position is that...

I have a sense that Manning is not being fully informed by the staff.

My source informs me that he did not know Michael was going for surgery -- and if he did it was last-second -- and was...

He's had 48(? something like that) games in complete control of the richest club in the league in pure spending power and it's still constantly qualified by how disrupted they are.

Everyone has...

I suspect with the rebuilt defense and Johnson keeping us in games, they're praying they make it to the middle window with the playoffs in sight, so they can splash on a big striker that will...

Given how wealthy they are, it's a hard position to fail out of. Even in losing years -- ala the Leafs, for decades -- people show up. It's a megacity with 10M in the immediate draw area. As long as...

He seems like a nice person.

I'm not sure however that anyone should, within two season, have admitted a) his transfer policy was "find me the most expensive Italian" who's available and b) his...

Also... what Champion team has Manning ever built!? He literally parachuted into RSL with the roster that won a) getting into the playoffs on the last day due to our collapse 5-0 at NY and b) with...

The system we ran was more a “reverse” press or counterpress. They countered and bunkered and only pressed when the outlet players were isolated. It was much more conservative than what Armas was...

Yeah, that’s pretty telling. We moved immediately into a low block from offense against Nashville. If you look at the possession, we ceded the centre of the pitch so greatly that they outpossesed us...

He didn't really editorialize, he paraphrased. The only editorializing there was the word "interesting," which in sports reporter circles doesn't even qualify.

If a newspaper reporter says someone...

Kinda smells like Omar was his decision but not keeping Piatti was advice from elsewhere, likely Curtis.

He's going to toss Curtis under the bus, would be my assumption. It also reads like he has...