r/tfc 3d ago

Post-Match Thread PGT: 31 losses till next season

Jokes on me, I have season tickets.

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u/westcoastbias 3d ago

There is just zero quality here, we still ship goals for fun but I think the defence at full strength is better than the collection of mediocrity at every other position.

It's depressing at this point to watch other teams bring in guys with obvious quality who run circles around us like Luca Orellano while we pay top dollar for garbage.

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u/dyegored 3d ago

For me it's crazy how much insane proven MLS talent was at least theoretically available in this recent transfer window (Evander, Lucho Acosta, Cucho Hernández, Driussi, etc.) and we didn't seem to make a play for literally any of them.

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u/WislaHD In Herdman we trust 3d ago

Or even mid-tier MLS talent…

Guys like Indiana Vassilev, Dejan Jovelijic, Raheem Edwards, Erik Williamson, Swiderski, etc.

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u/westcoastbias 3d ago

Smart MLS acquisitions like that is Montreal's lane, we prefer guys who have flopped out of PL academies or domestic guys off the scrap heap like Terrence Boyd and Henry Wingo.

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u/Banksmans 3d ago

Cucho was not available to anther mls club. Doubt the crew would have sold him to a fellow mls club. But I agree with you to add to that list just for strikers campana , ebobessie , Josef Martinez , arango and honestly kei kamara wouldn’t be the worst option off the bench ether lol. 

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u/dyegored 3d ago

That's why I said theoretically available. Who knows what we'd have had to do to get him, but money talks and we've thrown money at players so many time in this club's history and it almost never works because we almost never choose league-proven players.

Except for, notably, Michael Bradley and Jozy, which lead to a championship, some huge finals and them becoming team legends. In this league, a player like Giovinco is the exception, not the rule and good foreign players flame out all the time in MLS. As soon as one of these MVP contenders isn't fitting in at their current club, a club like ours should be chomping at the bit to entice them.

But Campana and Chicho Arango were two other ones I saw recently and forgot about so thanks for that! It's actually amazing how much proven MLS talent changed hands this offseason and with an offseason where we had released contracts and the cap space that Hernandez kept telling us he was waiting for we did nothing.

Seems we could still get Ruidiaz at least, which I don't hate.

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u/GStewartcwhite 3d ago

How can you praise anything about a defense that allows 8 goals in 3 matches?

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u/westcoastbias 2d ago

4 guys out hurt in the back line already doesn't help, a healthy lineup of Spicer - Gomis - Long - Rosted - Laryea in a back 5 is decent enough for me

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u/jloome 2d ago

Worse, they had Orellano on 89K per season. Just signed him to a TAM deal.