Benjamín Kuscevic

Central Defender - Toronto FC
26 Sep 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Benjamín Kuscevic

8 Edition

The Toronto FC Gazette

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Chastening afternoon for Toronto FC

A 0‑3 beating by New York City was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Squad

Luka Gavran stands alone

6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Market

Only the photograph left for Jules-Anthony Vilsaint

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jules-Anthony Vilsaint will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Toronto FC the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Words exchanged at Toronto FC

Walker Zimmerman 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Benjamín Kuscevic

“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.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Toronto FC dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

The dugout

Niklas Dorsch is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

The dugout

Connor Zardes answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Player ratings

One moment undoes Niklas Dorsch

There was one mistake and it ended in the net. Defenders are judged on the worst thing they did rather than on the eighty-nine minutes either side of it, which is unfair and is also the job.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Toronto FC Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Toronto FC sell Lewis Morgan for $10.2M

Lewis Morgan has left for Norwich City in a $10.2M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

The terraces

Toronto FC sell a favourite for $10.2M

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Lewis Morgan was one of the reasons people came, and $10.2M does not replace that by itself.

Squad

Walker Zimmerman in a row with a teammate

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 dugout

Dániel Sallói 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.

Squad

William Yarbrough is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and William Yarbrough has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

Looking ahead

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 Inter Miami CF.

Squad

A promotion for Theo Corbeanu

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. Theo Corbeanu has moved up it.

The dugout

Alejandro Piedrahita has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Toronto FC will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market

The Theo Corbeanu question follows Toronto FC around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Theo Corbeanu’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief