Deandre Kerr

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Toronto FC
4 Sep 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Deandre Kerr

5 Edition

The Toronto FC Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

William Yarbrough is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with William Yarbrough: 3 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Match

Cup progress for Toronto FC

A 0‑0 win over Houston Dynamo, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings

Raheem Edwards was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 32. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Market

Josh Sargent attracts admirers

The name of Josh Sargent has come up in conversations Toronto FC were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Match

8 unbeaten for Toronto FC

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Toronto FC did not have in the autumn.

Market

Only the photograph left for Deandre Kerr

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Deandre Kerr will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Toronto FC the goodbyes have quietly begun.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of William Yarbrough

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

Toronto FC rescue it on 86 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 86. DC United had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Toronto FC

12 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Toronto FC Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Toronto FC through in the cup

A 2‑1 win over Colorado Rapids, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Player ratings

Josh Sargent scores twice — 9.04

Two goals and a mark of 9.04 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Niklas Dorsch scores twice — 8.15

Two goals and a mark of 8.15 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Kobe Franklin hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Toronto FC can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Henry Wingo goes up and wins it — 7.61

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.61 for the rest of it.

Market

Toronto FC turn down Seattle Sounders for Kobe Franklin

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Only the photograph left for Raheem Edwards

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Raheem Edwards will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Toronto FC the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Boardroom

Raheem Edwards has agreed to leave Toronto FC for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Market

Matheus Pereira has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Toronto FC can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

In brief

3 Edition

The Toronto FC Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Cup progress for Toronto FC

A 2‑0 win over Real Salt Lake, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Markus Cimermancic at 21 — 8.20

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Markus Cimermancic did not need any: 8.20, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market

Charlotte Football Club come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Toronto FC did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Boardroom

Kobe Franklin has agreed to leave Toronto FC for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Player ratings

Raheem Edwards runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Words exchanged at Toronto FC

Richie Laryea and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The terraces

Toronto FC supporters have found a favourite in Jules-Anthony Vilsaint

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Jules-Anthony Vilsaint has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Brenden Musah chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.

Squad

No place for Nelson Quiñones in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Toronto FC are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

In brief