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Torsten Frings injury + Eric Avila’s hammer blow of a quote = very hard times for Toronto FC

May 7, 2012, 11:50 AM EDT

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Torsten Frings

Here’s what Toronto FC midfielder had to say about his team’s latest defeat in a growing, embarrassing string of them:

“It really does feel like a nightmare,” said midfielder Eric Avila. “It’s really hard. … After the game you just want to go and cry and hide.”

So here’s the deal: When a telling, hammer blow of a quote like that is not the worst thing that happens to a club on a given day, you know things have fallen into a spectacularly bad place.

We should know more today about Torsten Frings’ shoulder injury, the one that forced him out of Saturday’s match, a 2-0 loss to D.C. United. Frings’ ongoing, reliable performance (when healthy) is one of the precious few things going right around BMO this year.

So if the TFC captain is out for any substantial length of time, then Aron Winter’s chances of getting his club pointed in the right direction, super-model thin as they are, disintegrate that much further.

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  1. wesbadia - May 7, 2012 at 12:51 PM

    When your team’s overall success if founded on an aging, injury-prone player, there’s something insanely wrong with the system. I’ve been a defender of Winter since he was selected for the job, but at some point even the most staunch supporters of the man need to take a step back and question if he’s the person for the job. I’m still on the fence about TFC’s staff problems. Too much turnover in so few years is just as much to blame for the lack of success as is the performance on the pitch.

    I say Winter keeps his job at least through the end of the season, but come summer transfer window, Aron better be making huge moves to salvage some sort of dignity left in the campaign. Finding an able replacement for Frings is Priority One in my book. Putting someone like DeGuzman or Plata or Frei or even Johnson on the trading block might be the only way to start turning the ship that is Titanic FC.

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