http://m.torontofc.ca/news/2013/07/d...a-set-transfer
Not impressed with this fucking move at all, just started to get a "decent" back line and now shipping off one of our top guys on the whole team.
Sounds like by his tweet he's being forced out.
Darren O'Dea set for transfer
http://m.torontofc.ca/news/2013/07/d...a-set-transfer
Not impressed with this fucking move at all, just started to get a "decent" back line and now shipping off one of our top guys on the whole team.
Sounds like by his tweet he's being forced out.
would you be happy if you are badgered to renegotiate a contract you signed in good faith, said no, and told you're being turfed?Originally Posted by Doucet3
“Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’
And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”
-Eduardo Galeano
We all know his contract was way too big. He was another TFC panic signing that we paid through the moon for. I hope he can find a Championship team or something. He's a good guy.
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This is going to be an ugly transition, but hopefully what comes out the other end is a better team. This move, contract-wise, was necessary. With O'Dea all the best. Good guy by the sounds of it, and I'm sure he's got a decent club lined up.
Like the first summer of Winter/Mariner.
But when you hire your management team just as preseason is starting, what do they expect? Neither Winter/Mariner nor Payne had any time to put the team together before the season started. So they did it during.
Mariner really fucked us with that contract. Makes it shitty for us when we try to sign other players and shitty for O'Dea because we're in a position where we basically have to kick him out the door.
This really doesn't help our reputation at all. Players from within MLS especially are going to be avoiding us like the plague.
I hate Mariner. But I don't totally blame him for it. We've bought players in a panic all the time. The second fans get antsy about results, the management panics, then coach feels pressure, and they got out and pay too much for a perceived need. It keeps happening with this club over and over.
Well there goes me using TFC for seasons in FIFA....
so strange
It stings, but it's a good move for the long run and building the team that Payne and Nelsen want to build. I never had any hopes for this season, anyway, and O'Dea can be replaced by someone of equal ability and less money.
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Would be pure sorcery if can both on load the contract and get a transfer fee. O'dea was a good player no doubt but double the cap value and as an Irish int is missing lots of games and coming back tired. Signing out of continent internationals is bad business especially since mls ignores FIFA calendars
Although he made too much $$,...(Eckersly) is the same and worse IMHO,..Mark Bloom is his replacement?.....get promised major moves and all we are getting is USFL.....quality.....Richter in his non action allowed the first goal tonight ....we sure are going about it in a weird way if we are building from the rear out! I'm getting nervous.....and best wishes D'Dea .....hate for you think Toronto is classless....but..if it walks like a duck
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Personally, I am very happy with this move. O'Dea is complete shite. He plays like someone who is watching a pack of dobermans run him down. Scared. And he was personally responsible for as many defensive errors/goals a game as much younger, and inexperienced players. Good riddance.
The timing, however, is horrible. Toronto FC, is a misnomer. It is a company, and it treats it's players like employees, rather than athletes. No concept of morale, or morals!!
Jokes. I blame this, and the last three years on whoever hired Paul Mariner. Could someone remind me who that was?
Seconded.
There is a massive amount of complaining on this forum about O'Dea massive contract and that you can't have 1/6th of your whole teams money on a full back. It kinda sucks to see a good player leave, but you simply have to have value for money through your team in the MLS. Most MLS teams have full backs around the 75k to 100k region, and the majority of their salary on the bigger name offensive players.
Some people may complain about this, but its probably the best move Payne and co. have made so far for this team.
This team will never show and progress until MLSE sells the franchise
Lulz. Isn't there a thread where someone can't decide whether to get O'Dea's name on the back of his jersey ? I hope he didn't move too quickly on that.
Does anybody think this is a transfer within the league? Or to a team outside the league? In which case, will there be some fee involved?
Well, Darren O'Dear, you've now come and gone from my two favourite clubs - although you didn't perform with much distinction, you played with heart and seem to be a good lad. Wish you the best.
So, let me get this straight.
MLSE has been sold.
The guy who was pulling the strings, the Christmas tree guy, is no longer running the board.
The guy who was president of the team has been kicked up stairs.
The guy then brought in to run all of MLSE as CEO is arguably the best MLS CEO ever.
They fired the coach/general manager that was put in by the old regime.
The new president has a long history of success in this league.
He had to deal with us being over the cap and under in terms of player totals and player quality with far too many guaranteed contracts.
And yet...the issue is this amorphous thing called MLSE?
Its not the same people running TFC anywhere that counts compared to last year.
Different board
Different owners
Different president
Different CEO
Different coach
MLSE as we knew it a year ago is no longer running this team.
Sorry, but you got your wish.
That MLSE is no longer running the team.
Last edited by OgtheDim; 07-13-2013 at 10:02 PM.
I really don't have any complaints. I have no idea why there are now people complaining about a player leaving that literally a day ago everybody was saying was way overpaid and should be gone at the end of this season anyways. Getting his off the payroll early is a masterstroke and gets the club moving fowrard much quicker than anticipated.
I don't like lying...
O'Dea tweets that the transfer wasn't his choice, and that he doesn't want to leave...
Ryan Nelsen says that O'Dea got the transfer offer and he couldn't refuse it...
im gonna go ahead and say that Ryan is lying.
Who cares what the truth is, in the year that O'dea has been with the club they have only won 2 games, as one of the highest paid defenders in mls that is not good enough, maybe he is a great person, but i would rather he be an a--hole and win more games. We can't fall in love with players we need results.
Doesn't sound like either are lying actually! TFC probably got the initial approach, accepted, then O'Dea gets the option to negotiate with new club, and then accepted also. I don't think its legal for a club to directly approach an attached player without consent of his club.
He also leaves never having experienced winning a League match at BMO Field.
Nelsen says its a contract from Ukraine.
Big contract offer from what Nelsen says.
im not arguing that TFC should have kept him...
I saw it tweeted that he played in 28 games for us, winning 2 of them.
Wonder how many have suited up for TFC without a win to their name...probably a scary number
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