Originally Posted by wzhxvy
Getting to be disappoint isn't it. If the season kicks of as scheduled and this team ends up being a shit-show it's not going to be pretty.
Getting to be disappoint isn't it. If the season kicks of as scheduled and this team ends up being a shit-show it's not going to be pretty.
^ So we have cap room to sign Dickov.
wtf is the point of sending him home without releasing him.
Who was that older euro guy who was recently let go from Chivas? He was a Preki guy, I wonder if this is making room for him.
If the player being there creates an issue on the team they send him home but keep his rights to trade/sell ... or to send a message to get his ass in gear and perform better.
As noted in earlier posts, his contract is guaranteed so it would be crazy to release him without trying to get something in return first.
If Dickov is the answer, what is the question?
Maybe signing Dickov wouldn't be so bad, but he's not even available until the end of the League One season. This is getting mental, I'm seriously considering taking up stamp collecting instead internet-obcessing over TFC.
Do we?
Someone needs to do a tally of the salaries of the players we still have.
I'll bet we're still really close to the cap. As I understand it, we spent well over the cap last year thanks to allocation money. The likelyhood that we still have a lot of allocation money to play with is pretty low.
well, maybe not a lot but missing playoff means decent amount of allocation money, right?
“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
Not sure if this is posted so apologies if it has:
http://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/stor...cer-gerba.html
Never thought I would be excited to be looking forward to the return of Chad Barrett. God knows we apparently need him.
It might not be on-field performance. Maybe the guy showed up to practice hungover from drinking the night before and Preki ain't having it.
He does look like he has a little beer gut.
I don't get this team. They're not releasing him but they're sending him back to Toronto so...what? He can sit at home and watch movies?
And if they don't release him they want to...what? Trade him? That isn't a way to get his trade value up, saying he is "not up to scratch".
Unreal...Mo is becoming a bigger joke by the day.
This story from Mo makes absolutely no sense. We aren't over the last three lies and this fucker is coming up with another one right in front of our face. There is no way in hell you send a player home because he's not playing well without trading him or releasing him. He's on a guaranteed contract so you could atleast use him as a pilon in practice worst comes to worst.
I can't take the stupidity of this management any longer. Tommorrow they'll trade Dero for a bag of pucks and extend Nick Garcia's contract.
Not released, sent home. He's on a Guaranteed contract, so they won't release him *facepalm*
Very strange. Isn't the point of pre-season to practise enough so that your game becomes up to scratch? how is sending him home going to help him settle into the team? Once again, something at TFC doesn't quite smell right.
I'm disappointed in how the whole gerba thing's worked out so far. I had really high hopes when we signed him, and I still think that in the right team, he'd be really good at this level, but we obviously don't seem to be the right team for him. He looked shit on saturday in the half a game that I watched, but then so did a lot of the team.
I'm starting to wish Toronto had a USL First Division team!
Agreed Roogsy, I have no idea what he is trying to say in that article.
John M. must have tried to pierce this fog - maybe he can give another first hand account.
How players do this leave us with? No Gerba, no Herold. Like 16 or 17?
I was thinking the exact same thing. Sending him home because he was "not up to snuff" for anything other than discipline issues makes absolutely no sense. If his performance is not there then run him into the bloody ground on the training pitch until he either gets with the program or leaves of his own volition.
If it's his attitude rather than effort, then sending him home only makes trading his rights and trying to get something back in return for him all the less likely. If he is traded I guarantee we will get nothing more than the MLS proverbial bag of soccer balls, the 2011 4th round MLS Superdraft draft pick. At the rate we are going I think we will have at least 10 picks in the 4th round next season.
Nah
Mo will probably just screw over someone like Jimmy B (I'd bet he's next on the list to screw over), so Mo can get some cap room....but we'll be told the captain asked to leave/career ending injury/wife didn't like the city/too old to fly/wants to quit soccer to follow life long dream of working at starbucks. Something like that.
People, I hate to speculate and blow things out of proportion but I think if there was an easy explanation for all things that have been happening the last few weeks (maybe even months) then they would have been letting us know. Unfortunately I think something really shitty is going on inside this organization and eventually the bubble will have to burst and it will all make sense.
Full apologies for posting on this board (and for Tweets) that said Gerba was sent home for disciplinary reasons. There was a slight mis-communication between me and Mo.
(thank God I didn't print that in my story!)
Anyway, to be clear, the story is this: Gerba was sent home because the team felt he hasn't been up to scratch in pre-season thus far. Mo also stressed that Gerba has not been released by the club.
To read the full story with quotes from Mo, go here:
http://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/stor...cer-gerba.html
Cheers,
John Molinaro
http://twitter.com/JohnMolinaro
i hear that jimmy b does not want to play on grass,i think he is next...
I'm sure someone asked him why -- what possible purpose could this serve, other than sending the message that he's not good enough for the team. Hardly a smart move if you're trying to unload a guaranteed salary.
Won't make him a sharper player.
What a strange thing to say. Why wouldn't they just keep him in camp then if wasn't an issue of work ethic? TFC should just sign Dave Simpson and Slevin Lammie.“He’s worked hard but his play was not up to scratch,” Johnston said.
It could be that Gerba showed zero motivation and this is Mo's way of pushing him to perform better.
But he worked hard said Mo.
This makes no sence at all.
Sending him home does not exactly increase the proverbial trade value of yet another TFC player on a guaranteed contract now does it?
Grinding him into mush on the training pitch make a lot more sense to me.
I'll have to agree with you completely. There's no scenario where it makes sense to send home a guaranteed player unless he was seriously slacking off, mouthing off, etc..Sending him home does not exactly increase the proverbial trade value of yet another TFC player on a guaranteed contract now does it?
Grinding him into mush on the training pitch make a lot more sense to me.
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