I would imagine Herdman is getting as antsy as some of us at the lack of incoming.
I would imagine Herdman is getting as antsy as some of us at the lack of incoming.
Herdman said some were rested given the relative turn around.
Sharp was announced by TFC II.
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/TorontoFCII/status/1758174486040363014?s=20
I get the sense they are being quite cautious with Insigne's load giving what happened last season.
Anyway still lots to be concerned about with striker. I feel for Owusu, who has the right attitude, hustles but it just hasn't happened so far.
Interesting he played a 4-3-3, kinda hoping we are done with that formation.
That and Bernie’s goal plus Osorio, Kerr and Akinola in the video footage seems about the only thing we know about who played. The CP reported that Singh started but that seems unlikely if Herdman has been going with a set opening group all along. There seemed a trialist, #38, very tall lad, or is that Spicer?
https://www.instagram.com/torontofc/reel/C3WibP9L5Is/
TFC posted the starting 11. Singh played.
https://x.com/torontofc/status/17579...NdmFYXv_AyBjhA
Might also explain the four-man backline, as Spicer appears to have started at fullback. He's just back from injury, so playing as a two-way wingback/winger would've been substantially greater load, potentially.
I wonder who the trialist was, as it seems to have been a fullback.
He and Cash would have been with the second unit, I guess. They were in training shots last week, so they're definitely involved. But Herdman made a point of mentioning he needs to see sharpness and goals from the second team, which isn't a great sign.
Owusu would have more trouble adjusting of the two, I would expect, as he's coming from tactically disciplined football in Germany. Guys who've played based off team movement and not transitional speed seem to have the toughest time adjusting here, versus the skill guys who can beat guys one-on-one.
It's good that he's rotating supporting players into the first team, though. WE haven't had a manager ever, really, who routinely did that and our depth has always suffered as a result. They're never ready when necessary.
Eek. How early? He had a bunch of guys who were only supposed to play 30 minutes. If he didn't make that even, it might've been a flare.
Or maybe he was getting torched because he's not a defender.
Guy's got to learn to play defense, can't just become a wingback. Instinct will only help so much until people start overlapping etc.
Damn, we need an inspirational body or two. The whole vibe this year is so much better that I don't think we can be as bad again, and at least we have a proper holding midfielder now.
But I still can't see playoffs, unless our attacking corps does a massive about face.
The front office is pretty giddy about Herdman, I think. He spends a lot of time working on player mood and mindset, stuff that was light years ahead of Bob's methodology.
Some MLS free agents who play fullback and could potentially be brought in for trials are -
Jimmy Medranda
Zachary Brault-Guillard
Braian Cufré
Yeah, I almost posted Medranda, but he's such a vet, I don't think he would have to trial.
The other two guys have had a more mixed time in MLS so maybe. You have to figure he knows Brault-Guillard pretty well.
And we suspect he's had one Brit triallist in, so it might be another Longstaff type, or maybe Longstaff was playing fullback today. He's a Premier League academy player, so you can bet his positional and read fundamentals are well up to it.
TFC2 posted training camp pics. Lazar Stefanovic is back with them, so a first team deal for him is unlikely now.
Osorio's captains armband
Long piece with Herdman from before yesterday's game, poorly distributed or promoted as usual but it's quite interesting.
Confirms we were up 2-0 on Columbus after 90 minutes, then folded when the trialists and yutes went in, among other things.
Also makes it sound like he's giving Akinola a chance to be the man. We need a prayer hands emoji on this website.
https://www.torontofc.ca/news/toront...real-salt-lake
Last edited by jloome; 02-15-2024 at 03:32 PM.
From what I've read, it seems like we're going to be the team we should have been last year - pretty good when our main guys are in, and clenching our asses when they're not.
Ayo as the main striker is a bit worrisome to me. He's never shown any aerial ability in the past.
ye, but if he and his staff are at least setting up a proper structure and the team are buyin in and grinding some decent results (what BB should have done), and they got reassurance they can go for a better quality striker that fits with the team come summer - in the context of a rebuild year i'm alright with that... But hopefully one of the lads here can step in before then. But damn do we have a lot of strikers for that to be realistic lol
Going for the time to make the assumption Ayo is in over Prince because of quality of work
but
Herdman would be the first coach ever who did not have a bias for some people based on his experience with them
******
So apparently the other trailist in camp is "Egar Ie"
Edgar Ié - Player profile | Transfermarkt
at least it's something where we need it