Marked for Dániel Sallói
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
Benjamín Kuscevic and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market23 Nov 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Niklas Dorsch’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Deandre Kerr knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Deandre Kerr trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Raheem Edwards has seen what the next man earns
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Toronto FC that is a harder question to answer.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Toronto FC will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Toronto FC may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad26 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Nelson Palacio
“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.
Market26 Oct 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Niklas Dorsch’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
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 Jules-Anthony Vilsaint is on it.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 57 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dániel Sallói and Toronto FC agree another 3 years.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Toronto FC can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Devin Padelford and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Alonso Coello
“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.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
A test against the best for Toronto FC
The team at the top of the table next, and the honest measure of where this side actually is. Anybody can beat the club below them; the question is what happens against Orlando City.
Market12 Oct 2026
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.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Richie Laryea’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Toronto FC needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Deandre Kerr 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 Deandre Kerr has written the date down.
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Crisis
Squad5 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 66 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match3 Oct 2026
9 matches without a win for Toronto FC
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Toronto FC are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.76, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market5 Oct 2026
Raheem Edwards 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Toronto FC can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Match3 Oct 2026
New York City left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Benjamín Kuscevic 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jonathan Osorio, and the manager let it.
In brief
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Squad
Too much change too quickly at Toronto FC
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The dugout
The manager has not finished forgetting William Yarbrough's mistake
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Crisis
Squad28 Sep 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Toronto FC will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match26 Sep 2026
8 matches without a win for Toronto FC
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Toronto FC are no longer polite ones.
Squad28 Sep 2026
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad28 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dániel Sallói, and the manager let it.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market28 Sep 2026
The Josh Sargent story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Josh Sargent signs something — a contract at Toronto FC or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Toronto FC will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market21 Sep 2026
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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Niklas Dorsch 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Zane Monlouis 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Toronto FC
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Deandre Kerr was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
Inter Miami CF next, and one man in the Toronto FC dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Deandre Kerr knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Deandre Kerr trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Market24 Aug 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Toronto FC have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Squad24 Aug 2026
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer from Paksi for Dániel Sallói was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Toronto FC's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Toronto FC has to find a result from somewhere.
Market24 Aug 2026
Deandre Kerr 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Real Salt Lake have kept their man, and Toronto FC go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad24 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 Toronto FC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Dániel Sallói
“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.
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Uneasy
Match12 Aug 2026
The small margins put Toronto FC out
Out, 1‑1 to Real Salt Lake, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Market17 Aug 2026
AZ 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Toronto FC
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Toronto FC are no longer polite ones.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Raheem Edwards has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Columbus Crew left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Houston Dynamo will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Nelson Quiñones has pre-agreed a move to Toronto FC, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Houston Dynamo have kept their man, and Toronto FC go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Josh Sargent 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.
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Crisis
Market10 Aug 2026
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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Emilio Aristizábal did not need any: 7.87, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Toronto FC close the window on a squad of their own making
14 in and 0 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Walker Zimmerman and Toronto FC agree another 3 years.
Market10 Aug 2026
The name of Dániel Sallói has come up in conversations Toronto FC were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Match8 Aug 2026
Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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 Toronto FC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
DC United will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Sean Nealis has pre-agreed a move to Toronto FC, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.