Look, a tiny spec of a rumor!
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/Tiagobrandao_8/status/1729652563195085026?s=20
https://twitter.com/tombogert/status...10594331988214
Federico Bernardeschi when asked by a Juventus fan if he would return to the club in January: "I hope so."
Yeah I’m holding out still but damn there’s a weird sense of relief and optimism (or sense that the team would be better setup for a culture change) when you think about the hypothetical where we have 3 DP slots open with the story floating there could be a 4th.
Definitively wishful thinking cause prob not gonna happen… but the flexibility and ability for herdman to actually get shit done with 4 DP slots (even if it’s all dumped into young DP cause it’s cheaper) would make me feel so much more optimistic before next season lol
Went and checked out that Cuiabano's YouTube highlights (mind you they could make anyone look great) and he looks like a good shout as a u-22 initiative player. Speed and strength as a LWB. Just 20 years old and has been linked to teams like Ajax.
People trusting in the good sense of any MLSE board since the Leafs were born is weird enough but people trusting this board to be remotely useful while with that Rogers dude is present - that's a BIG stretch.
Why is it the received wisdom that the Insigne and Bernardeschi signings occurred because of a lack of oversight?
Seems far likelier to me that those signings were driven by Tanenbaum, and that Manning was just executing orders.
"There are some people who might have better technique than me, and some may be fitter than me, but the main thing is tactics. With most players, tactics are missing. You can divide tactics into insight, trust, and daring." - Johan Cruyff
I mean, it’s not entirely out of the question. I could see him going to his buddies in the development industry and saying “look what I did” But I think wanted criminals turn themselves in more frequently than Larry shows up at a TFC game.
The thesis of Manning riding Leiweke’s coat tails, thinking this will be easy with a big cheque book, and cocking it all up is a lot more simple and sensible, IMO
I’ve not seen any evidence the board knows anything about football or has any interest in it, Tanenbaum aside - possibly lots of interest and little knowledge there.
To be a longtime fan of TFC has been to accept that even important people directly running the football club have little knowledge of football (Mr. Tom Anselmi being a long time one of those), never mind the board!
Mabika is back.
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/JohnMolinaro/status/1730713185143906671?s=20
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/JohnMolinaro/status/1730741286875939055
^ Am I understanding this right? Akinola’s back!? I would have preferred not.
Can we still use our 2023 buyout we are reluctant to use?
I would be absolutely shocked if Herdman wouldn't be pushing hard to move on Ayo at that contract. I agree this assumption that he just loves all Canadians because he knows them is so surface level and there isn't anything supporting it, he's not an idiot and it's an objectively really bad contract
Yeh, that's my take so far too.
E.g. He named checked Mabika prior to the last game of the season. He seems to rate Mabika as a sub, at least - given what happened in New York during the Leagues Cup, that would take some serious talking with & probably couldn't happen until MB left the building.
I have the STRONG feeling MB made his professional opinions known to people in a manner which hindered those people from changing unless they were using MB's methods. He was, in essence, the "team lead" in an environment where he was seen to be able to affect whether some players got kept around or used.
That's not what a captain should be.