Here we go again. Seems to be the only theme with this club.
Toronto FC fired head coach Ryan Wilson this weekend, along with basically the whole coaching staff including former TFC player Jim Brennan. TFC promoted Greg Vanney to head coach. I have read that the original hiring of Vanney was made with the plan of eventually having him take over as coach, so maybe this isn't so much a typical TFC "panic and fire a coach" as much as it is executing a plan (you'll excuse me for being cynical). Vanney has worked for other MLS clubs. He's been a director for Real Salt Lake and helped establish the first residency program for an MLS club. He's also a former assistant coach with Chivas USA. Vanney also played in MLS for 9 years. So he is familiar with MLS.
On top of that, in an up and down day, TFC decided not to sell Jermain Defoe. Apparently QPR offered $11 million to TFC for JD (as per Sportsnet's John Molinaro).
The problem is that I continue to hear the words "until January" in terms of speaking about Defoe's move back to England.
Another rumor floating out there is that both Defoe and Bradly were not impressed at how practices have been run at TFC and for this reason both players may feel like the move to MLS, or more specifically, Toronto have been a mistake.
It seems like the second Tim Leiweke announced that he will leave Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment was the second that TFC went back to being it's old self. 9 coaches in 8 years. Upset players. Crazy transfer rumors. It never ends.
I saw 2 statement from long time TFC fans this past weekend that sum it up for me:
"This fucking crap never changes and I can't see that it ever will now."
"I'm just so tired of the B.S. surrounding the team every year".
For me, that's just it. Just as soon as everything was "fixed" it fell apart again. TFC signed 2 huge name players, brought in a world class keeper on a short term loan, made up with Dero and, really looked like a title contender. Goals were coming and everything was right. It felt like, for the first time ever, MLSE was taking the fan's hard-earned cash and spending it on the team to give something back. The warm fuzzies are gone. Honeymoon period 2.0 is over.
Here we are back to where we started. Some days it just feels hopeless.
