Marked for Nicksoen Gomis
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market4 Jan 2027
Lanús arrived with $21.9M and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Danny Musovski
75 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Seattle Sounders lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The terraces4 Jan 2027
Supporters turn on the $21.9M sale of Pedro de la Vega
He is going to Lanús, the club has $21.9M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Market4 Jan 2027
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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Walker Zimmerman 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Adisa De Rosario is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Luka Gavran asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Walker Zimmerman keeps the shirt for now, at Toronto FC's convenience rather than his own.
Market4 Jan 2027
The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Zac McGraw arrives at Toronto FC with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.
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Uneasy
Market28 Dec 2026
Only the photograph left for Nicksoen Gomis
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nicksoen Gomis will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Toronto FC the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad28 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Toronto FC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Deandre Kerr falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
“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.
Market30 Nov 2026
Nicksoen Gomis has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Toronto FC they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad30 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Toronto FC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Uneasy
Market2 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Toronto FC is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market2 Nov 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Toronto FC heard it as anything else.
Market2 Nov 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Niklas Dorsch wants continental football; whether Toronto FC can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad2 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Toronto FC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The captaincy has been taken off Djordje Mihailović. Toronto FC will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Market2 Nov 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Uneasy
Market5 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Toronto FC is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad5 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Toronto FC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Adisa De Rosario is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
Nicksoen Gomis has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Toronto FC they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Toronto FC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Toronto FC training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jonathan Osorio is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
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Upbeat
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 7.95 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Danny Musovski commits to Seattle Sounders for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Seattle Sounders this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
23 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 20, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Match8 Aug 2026
There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. Minnesota United FC tried to reorganise, Seattle Sounders did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Marked 8.29 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
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Uneasy
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Toronto FC is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market10 Aug 2026
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Djordje Mihailović and Toronto FC agree another 5 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Djordje Mihailović 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Jonathan Osorio falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Josh Sargent, and the manager let it.