Dylan Brooks

Central Defender - Toronto FC U18
23 May 2027
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Marked for Dylan Brooks

35 Edition

The Toronto FC Gazette

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market29 Mar 2027

Houston Dynamo 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.

Squad29 Mar 2027

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 dugout29 Mar 2027

Nelson Palacio gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Nelson Palacio is on it.

Market29 Mar 2027

The Djordje Mihailović story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Djordje Mihailović signs something — a contract at Toronto FC or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout29 Mar 2027

Theo Corbeanu has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Theo Corbeanu has written the date down.

The dugout29 Mar 2027

Zane Monlouis knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Toronto FC, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad29 Mar 2027

Niko Markovic has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Toronto FC will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

Looking ahead29 Mar 2027

Home comforts ahead for Toronto FC

New England Revolution, position 13, come to town on Saturday. Nobody will call it a big game and nobody at the club will be treating it as anything else.

The dugout29 Mar 2027

The manager comes out for Djordje Mihailović

Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Djordje Mihailović has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.

In brief

Back issues
32 Edition

The Toronto FC Gazette

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad8 Mar 2027

The knee: Dylan Brooks out for 15 days

15 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Toronto FC lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market8 Mar 2027

Richie Laryea 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.

Market8 Mar 2027

Real Salt Lake 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.

The dugout8 Mar 2027

Luka Gavran says Toronto FC went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match6 Mar 2027

Toronto FC cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad8 Mar 2027

William Yarbrough stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” William Yarbrough and Toronto FC agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad8 Mar 2027

A falling-out at Toronto FC

Lewis Morgan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Boardroom8 Mar 2027

5 academy graduates step up at Toronto FC

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

The terraces8 Mar 2027

The crowd has taken to Emilio Aristizábal

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

In brief

31 Edition

The Toronto FC Gazette

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad1 Mar 2027

The knee: Dylan Brooks out for 22 days

22 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Toronto FC lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market1 Mar 2027

Toronto FC turn down LA Galaxy for Nelson Palacio

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

Transfer targets1 Mar 2027

Mbekezeli Mbokazi will not be coming to Toronto FC

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Chicago Fire is saying, and nobody at Toronto FC is enjoying the guessing.

Squad1 Mar 2027

Home is on Dániel Sallói's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Toronto FC are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad1 Mar 2027

Tempers go at Toronto FC

Benjamín Kuscevic was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market1 Mar 2027

Colorado Rapids watching Markus Cimermancic

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Toronto FC have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad1 Mar 2027

Registration rules keep Jonathan Osorio out at Toronto FC

It has nothing to do with his form and everything to do with how the squad was assembled. He will train all week with a group he is not permitted to play for, which is a strange way to spend a season.

Market1 Mar 2027

Richie Laryea placed on the list

Toronto FC have made Richie Laryea available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

Market1 Mar 2027

The Djordje Mihailović story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Djordje Mihailović signs something — a contract at Toronto FC or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief