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Tag: Jermain Defoe

  • THE STARTING 11: Toronto FC v Sunderland Friendly Film Titles

    Apparently, there’s “Nothing Friendly About It”.  So say official Toronto FC press releases about the upcoming friendly against Sunderland. No, you see friends, this is no ordinary friendly, this one is about REVENGE! Apparently. As one or two of you may remember, Sunderland’s main striker is one, Jermain Defoe, formerly and briefly of The Toronto…

  • Making a Mountain Out of an Anthill: Five Keys to Giovinco’s TFC Success

      The jewel of Toronto FC’s off-season manoeuvres has barely had time to plant his tiny feet on the frozen tundra that is his new home but it is already time to look forward. While the pomp and circumstance of the club’s manufactured airport greeting (after what we assume was a comfortable L’il Alitalia flight),…

  • Up and Atom! Reds “unveil” Giovinco

    Well that was an odd little presser wasn’t it? It wasn’t the dog and pony show of the Jermain Defoe/Michael Bradley event a year ago. It wasn’t the “we gotta clear the room in five minutes for the maid” production they put on for Jozy Altidore a week ago. Actually it wasn’t like many player…

  • THE STARTING 11: Differences Between Jozy Altidore and Jermain Defoe’s Press Conferences

    Has it really only been a year? We’ve had so many good times over the past twelve months that time has just flown by! Like that time in Seattle! Remember that? And… that other thing. The one with the thing. Good times. I try not to look backwards too often but this past Friday’s Jozy…

  • 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!…

  • Few Alti-ternatives: Did Toronto FC Grab The Best Deal Available?

      WARNING: This article contains some explicit assumptions. Reader discretion is advised. While no one in the past, present or future universe will ever describe MLSE as paupers, the final move in the Bloody Big Deal may have come down to a case of beggars can’t be choosers. While the imminent transfer that will end…

  • TFC’s Jermain Man No More

    So it’s official.  Well almost official – Toronto FC and Sunderland have yet to make official statements but from TSN’s report last night (and other subsequent reports), Defoe is out the door and trading one black cat for another.   The question of whether or not Jozy Altidore comes here is just an MLS rule…

  • MALIGNANT RUMOUR: Toronto FC looking to Add­-a-­bayor?

    While TFC’s lustful gaze in the direction of Jozy Altidore is gaining the most traction on the rumour mill today, their apparent interest in Tottenham’s Togolese international striker Emmanuel Adebayor won’t go away. It really needs to though. For those out there who don’t also support one of Adebayor’s former clubs (or in my case, his current) you…

  • THE STARTING 11: Not Entirely Unbelievable 2015 TFC Headline Predictions

    Happy New Year Vocal Minorities! It’s exciting to be back for another year and to bust out the very first Starting 11 of 2015. There’s a dramatic 12 months ahead what with TFC’s 58-match road trip to start the season; the ceremonial gridiron painting as we ready for the Argos in 2016; the Vanney/Bezbatchenko sacking…