Talk:Toronto FC

message: Someone seems insistent on the logo being set at an arbitrary 0.8 for all MLS franchises (despite the fact that this produces completely different sizes when implemented). The Seattle logo, for example, appears twice as large as the TFC logo when both are set at 0.8. If sizes were all meant to be the same in the syntax, then why is there an |image_size = parameter to begin with? Beats me. I'm suggesting keeping it at 1.1 which seems to fit the width of the infobox perfectly. --TrailBlzr (talk) 17:36, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm the someone. Now that we are using relative as opposed to absolute sizing, feel free to adjust them. The point is that that they should be about the size of the ones on other articles, such as :Chicago Fire Soccer Club. I have tried to approximate the same size. Walter Görlitz (talk) 17:42, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Logo is too small 

message: MLS awarded a franchise to the club to allow them to field a first team in the league. When the article discusses the success and failure on the field, it is of a specific team. If the article discusses the success or failure of the management or organization, it's is of the "club". Anything else conflates those definitions. Walter Görlitz (talk) 23:17, 13 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: In this case, a team consists of a group of players who play together, a club manages and operates the team, and a franchise is the right for the club to manage an operate a team within a league. Is that correct?  Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 00:32, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  That seems to work with the basic understanding. The only change I would try to incorporate in those definitions is that "club" includes all teams: from the academy to the first team. Walter Görlitz (talk) 00:47, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  To clarify that further, the club operates and manages the teams within the franchise given.  Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 01:05, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  Not really. The franchise is for a team to play in MLS. I suspect that their contract stipulates where additional teams may play. For instance, they probably can't play a team in CPL as well (as it's a competing first-division league). I suspect that they may play a team in a lower division league as a second team, whether that's USL or League 1 though. Since other MLS teams do not have academy teams or the same development system, I suspect that the league doesn't stipulate anything about the rest of the club. Walter Görlitz (talk) 01:13, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

text: The successes and failures of the first team on the field are also successes and failures of the club as a whole. That said, the word "team" is far too narrow to describe Toronto FC as a whole because TFC is a "club" that operates various teams, in various leagues, at various age groups. TrailBlzr (talk) 01:50, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  Not really. If an academy side does well, or one of their prospects does well, that is a victory for that team and for the club. If the first team does well, it reflects on the club as well. However, the way that the recent changes were applied are not consistent nor meet any definition of the words. Walter Görlitz (talk) 02:40, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

text: For most other clubs, the word "organization" would be the North American equivalent of "club", however since TFC is run by the largest sports corporation in Canada, it could also mean Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment. It would have to be determined which it means. Walter Görlitz (talk) 01:04, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it's confusing and very dependent on context.  Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 00:23, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Club vs team vs franchise vs organization 

message: Looking at the images in this and this news stories, I don't see grey in the jersey or the socks. Why is there any there at all? {https://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/mls/soccer-jozy-altidore-social-justice-1.5748944 This] shows the upper portion of the kit quite well, and this and this show more silver in the kits. Is that what the grey is trying to represent? Walter Görlitz (talk) 19:53, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Away kit 

message: :WP:FOOTY's rules are clear: if a player has played for a nation at any level, he is considered a part of that team. Just being called to a training camp does not mean the player qualify the player to be considered a player for that nation, the player needs to be capped by the nation. :Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football and its archives have gone through this debate multiple times (search for nationality). I have been involved in multiple debates about the topic. Since he has played for them at a the hjunior level 49 times, he is American until he steps on the field for the Canada in any capacity. Since he is not, as the CBC article states, cap-tied to the "U.S. senior side", it should be easy enough to qualify for a Canadian cap, but until that happens, he is American. If  slects to ignore :WP:BRD again, I will alert the footy project to this discussion and let them decide. Walter Görlitz (talk) 05:56, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ayo Akinola's nationality