Report: Peralta deal finalized

Toronto needs to burn the curse of BMO. Curse of injuries. There is something wrong in the city where a curse needs to be lifted.

TFC will solely be judged on if it can finally turn a corner in a league where winning should be easy with the right management. If they fail to make the playoffs and provide a winning culture, this signing would be a waste of time. If they start winning...then it was a good signing.

I'm not sure the qualifier for being 'a good signing' is dependent upon if Toronto is successful. Having said that, they need to make the playoffs this year. But then they've 'needed' to make them for the last three probably.

Never heard of him...

I'm with the guy above. Is there any context to this signing? What do people who know this guy think of him?

According to this article http://goo.gl/t13iB he was involved in something of payment dispute with his club Vida prior to this sale. He claims to have not been paid at all for the first half of this season.

The article describes him as an important part of Vida's midfield. He's also been selected for the Honduran senior team ahead of the Central American Cup later this month. It's not exactly their first team but it bodes well that he's considered good enough to be on it.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Never heard of him...

So what!

He's a decent player. Good technique and touch. Makes overlapping runs. He's not a going to take someone on one on one but will attack with speed. Better technical player than Hall and solid positionally and defensively. However, if he's playing on defense I don't expect him to usurp Eckersley. Cover for DM and RM. Also, Alex Lopez is similar to a Luis Silva type player - kind of a number 10 but seems to switch wings more than anything.

dont see him moving Frings out so much as he would be playing next to him. Itd make Dunny back up (which for all his effort, he really is)

Originally Posted by Grant

According to this article http://goo.gl/t13iB he was involved in something of payment dispute with his club Vida prior to this sale. He claims to have not been paid at all for the first half of this season.

The article describes him as an important part of Vida's midfield. He's also been selected for the Honduran senior team ahead of the Central American Cup later this month. It's not exactly their first team but it bodes well that he's considered good enough to be on it.

Played at the olympics and in most of their 2012 wcq games as well. yes, including that one.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Never heard of him...

Peralta played RB for Honduras in the olympics and was responsible for marking Neymar.

I don't think this necessarily means that Frings is out because Peralta can play multiple positions. He could be the box to box midfielder we haven't had since Carl Robinson or he could be the new RB. We'll see.

I've seen him play. I mean he won't replace Frings in terms of talent, obviously, but the hope is that TFC would lose Frings and stop paying DP money for defensive mids.

In that regard, I think if the idea is to do that, then it would probably be a good signing.

Originally Posted by adrenaline11

Peralta played RB for Honduras in the olympics and was responsible for marking Neymar.

I don't think this necessarily means that Frings is out because Peralta can play multiple positions. He could be the box to box midfielder we haven't had since Guevara or he could be the new RB. We'll see.

Guevara was a box to box mid?? Interesting.

Peralta could be a great signing. He's got great stats and can still improve a lot. I only hope he'll get that chance at TFC, cause if Mariner looses the first two games you can be sure that he'll only play veterans.

Btw even if you have Frings, you do need some back-up. And maybe Frings is not even coming back, for all we know.

Maybe this frees Frings to push forward into a more attacking role? Takes some defensive pressure off the old man.

i think once we know where he is going to be played it will mean a lot more to us as followers. frings is likley to return due to contract, and the high dollar payout to sever ties. if parelta is put into a mf role -assuming frings is back-we have an interesting combination of speed, skill, experinec b/w the 2 mf players.
we need to build the mf ...i think this could be v positive??...jmo

solid signing. more solid young PROs (rather than naive college players) is what TFC needs to make a quick jump up the standings. a solid player on a good Honduran olympic team. This will help.

Peralta played RB for Honduras in the olympics and was responsible for marking Neymar.

Neymar ran rampant down that wing most of the game.

Originally Posted by RLT

Maybe this frees Frings to push forward into a more attacking role? Takes some defensive pressure off the old man.

Frings will just get hurt within the first few games anyways....just stating a fact