The Toronto FC Gazette
Market5 Jan 2032
Theo Corbeanu wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad5 Jan 2032
Tempers go at Toronto FC
Josh Sargent 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.
Squad5 Jan 2032
Myrto Uzuni signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Myrto Uzuni commits to Toronto FC for another 2 years.
The dugout5 Jan 2032
Theo Corbeanu gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout5 Jan 2032
When it matters, Luka Gavran plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad5 Jan 2032
A promotion for Dániel Sallói
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Dániel Sallói has moved up it.
Market5 Jan 2032
The Theo Corbeanu talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Toronto FC know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad5 Jan 2032
Djordje Mihailović wants to know why he earns less
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and Toronto FC have no good answer.
The dugout5 Jan 2032
The manager makes Andrew Rick a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Toronto FC. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
In brief
- Market Ryan Brooks leaves for nothing
- Market David Robinson leaves for nothing
- The dugout The manager comes out for Niklas Dorsch