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Hire a new coach with an ambitious possession-centric philosophy. Promote a flock of wet-behind-the-ears academy kids and struggle mightily in the first ...

“So we're still with work to do, but we believe in the process of the football every day, the way we try to improve, the little details. TFC are undefeated (3W-0L-2D) in league play since Insigne and Bernardeschi stepped into the starting XI, a dramatic upward reversal that could well push them into the East reckoning if they can sustain it. “For the years when we were spread out, we still, as everyone knows, always were in touch about the game, things that we were seeing. “And then for them, you have to establish some of the ideas that we've tried to put in place, some sense of positional play, some sense of what happens when we lose the ball, what are we trying to do? [Michael](https://www.mlssoccer.com/players/michael-bradley), TFC’s captain and a building block of their climb from perennial MLS underachievers to all-conquering treble winners in 2017. When you get training going, if training is put together in a good way, a lot of those things start to happen.” “He loves to train, he's trying to always help the younger players. “Fede’s English is pretty good, Lorenzo's is improving but at the moment not great, and then Criscito’s English is good. I think the ones that were there the whole year, the way we trained, the ideas in terms of how we wanted to play, there was consistency on that end, for sure. And that’s been the case this year,” he added. He harks back to his time in charge of Stabaek, the Norwegian side Then pivot dramatically in midsummer upon the arrival of a clutch of elite Serie A veterans – one of the priciest talent infusions in MLS history – and mount a dramatic late dash up the table and into the Audi MLS Cup Playoffs, where just about anything can happen.