Darren O'Dea

I was reading Duane Rollins' recent column over at Canadian Soccer News about Darren O'Dea leaving Toronto FC.

The paragraph that really hit home is this one:

What we do know is that a 26 year old player, good enough for his national team and good enough to be named captain, who could have been part of Toronto FC for a number of years into the future won’t be sticking around. Regardless of the arguments over its necessity, and obvious lack of efficacy, the culture of disposability at TFC hasn't been changed.

This signing was one of the best signings in club history in my opinion. A young player who is clearly one of the best from his country (being an Irish international) who wanted to come to TFC and help fix the struggling back line. To boot, due to his age, he could have stuck around for a long time and started to turn TFC into a place for some higher profile players to consider coming to.

I strongly believe that this is one of the worst moves TFC has made to date. O'Dea is worth the $200K they are were paying him in my opinion.

I'm really not happy about this.