End of the road at Toronto FC for Danleigh Borman
by Duncan Fletcher on Dec 5, 2011 1:42 PM EST
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The first stage of the MLS Re-entry draft happened this afternoon, with three players taken. Toronto FC passed on their pick so didn't add anyone here. Real Salt lake's Arturo Alvarez was picked up by Chivas USA, and Columbus Crew picked Carlos Mendes from New York Red Bulls. The other pick was the New England Revolution who gave Toronto's barrel a scrape and took away Danleigh Borman.
Borman had been getting attention from a few people as a player likely to be picked today due to his low salary, though it will need to be renegotiated as he is now out of contract, and lo and behold with the second overall pick it happened. With the emergence of Ashtone Morgan into the first team, Borman won't really be missed much by TFC, but he's an ok, affordable depth player, the type of imperfect solution every MLS team needs to have to fill out it's roster under the salary cap.
He didn't look great for TFC this year, as his defensive shortcomings were too much to be offset by his speed and willingness to go forward and help out the Left Winger. He could be a useful player in a team that has an otherwise solid defence and can cover for his mistakes. Obviously that wasn't TFC last year, but he's being plucked from the frying pan into the fire, as the Revs were the second worst defensive team last year, just one goal better than TFC with 58 conceded.
He won't be missed, but now TFC have another gap to fill, and the 42,000 league minimum salary he earned last year doesn't really give a lot of extra cap space to fill it with.
For more on Borman with TFC, check out his Top 40 profile here, he was number 28.
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Really not bothered to see him leave since with him already on a minimum contract there was no way TFC were thinking of bringing him back after the re-entry draft. It was just a matter of when he would leave and where he would end up.
Oddly enough I heard fans of a few teams, including the Revs suggest that he was someone they would be interested in considering the price point he was on
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Did they not watch him this past season?
As a bench/depth player I guess for some teams he’s not a bad pick-up. But like you said – not at all bothered by his departure. Was never a fan of his this past season – never impressed me and the defensive errors just drove me crazy regardless of anything else he did.
and a few people on twitter saying it was a good pikcup as well, soccerbyives, mlsanalyst for example.
I guess people are always willing to look at the bright side with anyone coming from TFC, and give them the benefit of the doubt, as if it would be unfair to blame any one player for not thriving in our special brand of chaos.
Managing editor of SBNation's Toronto FC blog,Waking the Red .
by Duncan Fletcher on Dec 5, 2011 4:12 PM EST up reply actions
The “leave TFC & thrive” school of thought? Hmm, I suppose…soccerbyives, really? Well, we’ll see – assuming that he signs of course. Don’t think that Winter’s system was all that difficult for him to adjust to though, which to me means he’ll be the same liability at the back that he was here.
oh absolutely
new england’s in no better place right now that tfc were when he was a regular.
give him 3 good defenders to play alongside to cover for him, and his offensive usefulness will outweigh his defensive craptaculousness.
Managing editor of SBNation's Toronto FC blog,Waking the Red .
by Duncan Fletcher on Dec 5, 2011 6:53 PM EST up reply actions
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