Vocal Minority

Author: Duncan Fletcher

  • Voyageurs Cup schedule released.

    So, it’s a big day for soccer in Toronto, are you all excited? A plane is indeed arriving from Italy, as many of them do every day, TFC are trying to turn ‘Seba’s arrival into a big thing, I’m intrigued to see just how much of a crowd their prompting will induce, obviously him signing…

  • Atomic Ant Marches In Early: Giovinco to TFC for the start of the season.

    This should come as no surprise to anyone really. There has been plenty of talk recently of Toronto FC ‘hoping’ to have Sebastian Giovinco in Toronto as soon as possible, of Giovinco’s agent in talks with Juventus about getting him out of his contract. Also, the talk at the press conference announcing his signing was of…

  • Episode 71 – 15/01/29 #VinceVaughanTheDancingCannoli

    Camp is finally underway and the first week is chaotic with way too much to talk about. In order, there’s the Oduro trade, the soon to be Ol’ Gil trade, the Bekker trade, the Perquis signing, the Zavaleta trade, the state of the defence, Giovinco’s soul, Armbandgate, LessThanSuperDraft and TFC II.  Woof. Kristin’s hamstring is…

  • LETTERS FROM CAMP: Zavaleta in, Gilberto probably out.

    Finally it’s here, the first day of camp, a time to be all excited about re-uniting with old friends and making new ones. To be wide eyed at the thought of the amazing adventures that everyone’s going to have together, whilst being apprehensive of the challenges that are sure to come as we all head…

  • Toronto FC officially sign Damien Perquis

    We have another new player in through the revolving door, as this morning the signing of Damien Perquis was announced by Toronto FC. Unlike Jozy Altidore or Giovinco, there was no great ceremony to this one, merely a press release, an article on the website and a photo of him holding up the shirt (number…

  • Giovinco still has his soul, but what’s his motivation?

    So, we all know no matter how much management is talking it up, Sebastian Giovinco’s not coming to MLS and Toronto FC for the challenge, it’s all about the money.  Nothing unusual about that, players move to all sorts of teams in all sorts of leagues for the sake of a good pay cheque, which…

  • TFC II officially announced

    The hits just keep on coming for Toronto FC, with varying degrees of importance. Kyle Bekker going to FC dallas for allocation money broke yesterday though it’s still not official. Difficult to say if it’s a good deal without knowing how many garberbucks we get back, and there is now of course the chance for…

  • Altidore arrives, Chapman signs, 5 get drafted. Busy day for TFC

    Well, it was quite the day for Toronto’s squad building attempts, at the DP end, and at the probably USL Pro side as well, one could plausibly call it a SuperDay. First up before all the SuperDraft nonsense (for all the highlights of that, click here.) there was the signing of Jay Chapman. Highly touted…

  • When is a record fee not a record fee?

    Remember yesterday when the vague unsubstantiated reports were of TFC getting a near MLS record fee for Defoe, with figures like $10m or $11m being thrown around. If not, here’s another one fresh from tonight from Kurt Larson  where ‘in the neighbourhood of $11m’ is the figure thrown out there. MLS record don’t you know!…

  • Jo-zy can you see? TFC just keep on getting more and more ‘Murica.

    It’s not official yet. The necessary winks and nods have to be exchanged and the rules massaged in Uncle Don’s Rub ‘n’ Tug Parlour until the desired happy ending is arrived at in an explainable fashion (Hold on, according to this update from Gareth Wheeler, MLS tried all that sort of thing to get Altidore…