Earl, clean out your desk.Okay, here's my end of the day rant. Here's what I think is the big problem.
Everyday I come to this site and go to the news thread that Denime has got up early and started and everyday I want the same thing - I want to see the headline: "TFC in talks with ___ to run organization," and some big-name, we're-never-going-to-get-him executive. Some guy who spent his life with the biggest teams in the world and is now retired. Of course, it'll never happen, I just want to think that while these guys from one of the richest sports ownership groups in North America were driving around the UK thinking about buying Newcastle one of them said, "Hey, why don't we at least find out how much it would cost to get a really great exec to run our team in Toronto?"
But instead I get a story about some guy named Nathan Sturgis who's pissed off because he got traded to TFC and no one here can blame the guy for being disappointed.
And then today.
Here's how it should have gone: three weeks ago this agent phones TFC and says, "Hey, after Christmas, instead of DeRo laying around eating leftover turkey and watching TV all day, I got him a chance to train with a big team in Europe," and TFC says, "Hey, that's great, let's make it happen."
And then a few days before Christmas they issued a press release that says, "DeRo to get jump on season training with Celtic," and people here would have made comments about Celtic and the Scottish league, but all agreed it was a good idea for our captain to get some training in before the season.
Then today we would have seen the pictures of DeRo and Ljundberg and there would have been a lot of funny comments about it but overall people would have been happy that with less than six weeks to the start of training camp DeRo was getting in shape.
Instead we got this fucking fiasco.
Blame DeRo or the agent or TFC or anybody, it doesn't matter. This team doesn't seem any more prepared for this sason than it did for season one.
Beach_Red, when can you start?