It’s all happening right now on the Mo Johnston front.
Former coach Chris Cummins laid it all bare in an interview with The Score yesterday. Johnston is threatening legal action, and other former coach John Carver is apparently set to settle his debts with Johnston later today.
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I find I don’t have a lot to add this morning. Predictably, Toronto FC played a fine match on the weekend, knocking off Seattle 2-0 and looking significantly like a real soccer team while doing it. That will certainly blur the issues a bit.
Here’s what’s not blurrable, though:
Toronto FC has a general manager interferes too much, promises more than he delivers, gets too many players from too few places, and routinely frustrates and baffles the people who work for him, cover him, and cheer for his team.
The next question: why does Toronto FC sign so many players from First Wave Sports Marketing, which just happens to also represent Johnston and TFC head coach Preki? I have no direct knowledge of anything untoward here, but there’s been smoke coming off this question from the beginning, and it’s time the media put on their fire hats and took a look.
Duane’s got some great stuff on all of this over at The 24th Minute, and we knocked it around last night on “It’s Called Football.”
I’m going to hang back a bit. I really want to hear what Carver has to add.
Onward!