VMP 2016 Final Countdown #22: Damien Perquis
Duncan – 19 The French Polish Darren O’Dea. Paid too much, does some good stuff, not good enough to be the guy to pull the whole defence together, but when there’s somebody else to do that, all of a sudden he doesn’t look that bad. After a pretty crap 2015, I was really hoping Bezbatchenko and co would be able to find a way to wonk him out of the squad as well as Ahmed Kantari. Alas they couldn’t, but I...
VMP 2016 Final Countdown #23: Mark Bloom
Kristin: 23 – Poor, I mean middle class Mark Bloom. Such a nice boy, but hard to remember anything else about him. Happy to see him going home to Atlanta. Oh Mark Bloom, your time at Toronto FC just never really clicked did it? In just over three seasons (after being scooped up from the Atlanta Silverbacks in 2013), Bloom only played in 39 games – the majority of those in 2014 when Ryan Nelsen really leaned on the...
VMP 2016 Final Countdown #24: Mo Babouli
Tony: 23 – His season took a curve midway. Like his hair. Hey UAE guys! It’s Molham! While it wasn’t quite the breakout year that many had hoped for Mo Babouli, he did gobble up some valuable minutes in his 16 appearances with the big boy club. Sadly for Mo, two things didn’t come to fruit in 2016: He didn’t hit the net; and the Mo Waterfall haircut never really took off. Hard to say where things go for the 24-year old who ended...
VMP 2016 Final Countdown #25: Dan Lovitz
Duncan: 26 – I! don’t! care! Dan Lovitz! I don’t care! Dan Lovitz, Dan Lovitz! Thank you Icona Pop for summing up my thoughts on Dan Lovitz this year, ‘Lovitz – the greatest thing’ certainly wasn’t going to do the job. A particularly anonymous and mediocre season for Dan, here’s what I remember. NYCFC picked him up in the draft and then, no wait that was last year, bah. Listening to...
VMP 2016 Final Countdown #26: Raheem Edwards
Mark: 26 – I will treasure all of his contributions this year. Six minutes. Raheem Edwards made his debut for Toronto FC in a Voyageurs Cup match against Vancouver, coming on for Osorio in the 86th minute in late June. He followed that performance by making his league debut in an 88th minute substitution coming on for Eriq Zavaleta. It’s probably more time than that, but for the purposes of the narrative, we’ll ignore extra...
VMP 2016 Final Countdown #27: Brian James
Mark: 27 – I will treasure all of his contributions this season. Brian James made his debut for Toronto FC in the Voyageurs Cup replacing Dan Lovitz in a game against Montreal and contributed six minutes. Thank you Wikipedia. Six whole minutes. That’s nearly 360 seconds, if my math is correct. The 80th pick overall from last season’s SuperDraft (TM) out of Penn State, the midfielder finally got his big-time break as his...
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