Two weeks away.Originally Posted by TFC07
Two weeks away.
We don't have YNWA but we do have 2WA.
2WA the new mantra
The TAM will come out
Two weeks
So ya gotta hang on
'Til two weeks
Come what may
two weeks, two weeks
I love ya TAM
You're always
Two Weeks
Away
Two more weeks to T A M
Curtis in NY this afternoon
Two more weeks to T A M
Don't worry, announcement coming soon
*to the tune of 2 Minutes to Midnight by Iron Maiden.
Does anyone have any Roller skates on in NYC... TAM could be announced as early as Tuesday, when the Secondary Transfer Window will open. Can OG play on the 13th as well?
Hell Yeah!
PUT ME IN COACH
Any holding midfielders on the market? If TFC can pick one up on the cheap to rotate with Fraser, Bradley becomes expendable. Seems a new DP is the only way, aside from striking gold with TAM, that they can make a significant jump to get to where we want them to be.
A guy like Larentowicz or, perhaps more likely, Ricardo Clark (if he has anything left), might be an attainable short-term CDM option.
I'd use Delgado in that role, move Bradley, and move Osorio into the 8 role. At least until we see what the new CBA brings.
Alex Gorrin who’s name was mentioned a month ago appears to have signed for Oxford utd
Fraser is the guy we need to keep. He will be a stud CDM young tfc would be stupid to sell this player. If Bradley loves Toronto he will sign tam next year and we bring in another dp. Fraser could be better than hutch is all goes well. Let's not keep player like Ash over guys like Fraser
What a surprise
Window only opens July 10.
You can still announce.
I think TFC has learned the hard way not to announce until the signature is on paper. That doesn't seem to have extended to vague promises of reinforcements coming in two weeks.
So El Shaarawy going to china for a wage over €13m a year.
Where are those deluded people who thought we should sign him as a TAM player?
Jozy being Jozy tonight.
I get people prefer a guy here 36+ games a year but the guy is something special right now & has vastly changed his game in the last year to become a playmaking #9.
Just tuning in. What has he done?
EDIT: in the 10 minutes I have been watching, Bradley has been undressed 3 times.
Last edited by ensco; 07-07-2019 at 09:36 PM.
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
They weren’t deluded. We SHOULD have signed him on TAM...
... it would, however, have been impossible, which is what a lot of people on the board were saying.
I think it’s more that people don’t understand how things like TAM and DPs work, along with not understanding how transfers and salaries work, with a sprinkle of thinking MLS is a highly desirable league and Toronto a highly desirable football city.
First 40 minutes, US controlled Mexico. Jozy was doing his stand up & take it and flick balls off stuff.
Martino switched his 2 wide players at the half & Berhalter had no clue how to respond. Bradley asked to cover most of the pitch as the 20 year old they gave the captain's armband to tonight was effective in nothing but sticking his nose into fights.
It wasn’t a disaster.
Americans will continue to blame Jozy for the miss and Bradley for having to cover a lacking defence that he probably can’t cover for because he’s slowed down and people make frequent mistakes (including himself).
Berhalter isn’t going to get them anywhere, and the player pool is pretty mediocre if you don’t count the few players who are playing all right in Europe but can’t transition to success on the USMNT.
For the Americans, I think they have a fan base that demands the team push further-and-further. Often the media will get ahead of itself selling how great the USMNT is, hype its upcoming stars, and seemingly circle around the idea that it's only a matter of time before they punch weight with the biggest footballing nations in the world. Hot take: the team now isn't much better than the ones we've seen in the past. The gap between the narrative of the team's quality and reality always leads to people losing their marbles every time a setback occurs.
With the gold cup, both Mexico and the US expect to win every time out. Whoever loses is automatically left to soul search and of course the familiar narrative of Bradley being what's wrong with everything comes up. I wonder if Tyler Adams was healthy if Bradley even starts? Doubt it would have changed too much about this game although I do rate adams pretty highly.
Berhalter is a decent MLS coach who crafted a Columbus team over time to play his preferred style - but can't help but feel he got this job because his brother is the 2nd most powerful guy in US soccer (who got called out a couple of weeks ago for creating a toxic work atmosphere).
I'm coming to the conclusion that the US teams of 2002-2010 were a product of a group of guys at the right age playing the game in a way that was successful given what everybody else was playing with pragmatic coaches that were able to adjust. The size of the US pool of players should be enough to provide a top 16 World Cup team but their youth coaching & development system was so flawed that it couldn't sustain decent results as the game changed and the one group aged.
I suggest Canada's current crop of relatively better players is like the US circa 2006 - will the system keep decent kids coming along?
To bring this back to the topic, CanMNT & USMNT success is now largely dependent upon how MLS academies do their jobs & if the MLS teams can bring players along.
Jozy is good but can we bring along Akinola?
Bradley is still decent but can we bring along Fraser?
Shaffelberg needs reps but will he get that with a TAM attacker brought in?
Last edited by OgtheDim; 07-08-2019 at 07:46 AM.
Yamil Asad now a free agent as he couldn't come to terms with Velez.
That’d be great, i’m a fan. That said, everything i’ve seen in the past suggests he wants to go back to DCU.
TFC did acquire Mr. DCU, which by transitive principles allows Asad to join us as though we were DCU.
Ali Curtis is playing 9-dimensional Snakes & Ladders. Our unevolved minds can’t even begin to comprehend the moves he’s making.
Dc had a chance to buy him for 700000 but didnt? No tam money left?
If we cant get janson go get asad. Id prefer janson cause it would allow the shaff to stay on the field.
Asad is two footed IIRC, think we could still plug him in.
I like Asad too but this just happened and we totally aren't reactionary anymore. With Curtis in charge, it would take him to the winter window to get this worked out, minimum.
This made me snort coffee out my nose. well played. off to get more coffee
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