The Toronto FC Gazette
Squad8 Mar 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for William Yarbrough
94 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Toronto FC lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match6 Mar 2027
Toronto FC let it slip despite Lewis Morgan
Lewis Morgan had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and New York Red Bulls were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
Market8 Mar 2027
Derrick Etienne Jr. asks to leave Toronto FC
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
Derrick Etienne Jr. 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
The wait goes on for Toronto FC
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
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
4 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.
Transfer targets8 Mar 2027
Toronto FC rebuffed over Heung-Min Son
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Los Angeles Football Club have kept their man, and Toronto FC go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
In brief
- Match No clean sheets in sight for Toronto FC
- Market One of our own: Jack Wright joins the Toronto FC first team
- Market DeAndre Sargent steps up from the Toronto FC academy