Spawned from the new NYCFC thread news. It's pure daydream stuff for now, but what the hell.
I don't believe TFC will ever be a successful club without either top quality proven coaching OR a world class, household name star player. This current model of low quality coaching and middle tier star players does not seem to work for TFC. Dero, Deguzman, Frings, Guevara, Koevermans etc.. have never been able to put this team over the top.
So if you owned TFC and you could splurge in only one place would it be on a coach or on a player? If you say player then you have to at least believe that Toronto has a snowballs chance of hell in ever getting a household name brand world class player.
With a second team in NY I don't see Toronto ever getting that household name brand player. RedBull will still own a team and they have serious cash. It's not like a second NY team will make RedBull roll over and die. So with LA and two NY teams being the likely dream destination for any world class player I don't think Toronto will ever get one.
For that reason I vote for a coach. Push out the boat and try and get a Sigi Schmid pedigreed coach. Sure guys like Schmid are rare, but I think Toronto has a better chance of grabbing a quality coach then they do an elite player.