Every Friday/Saturday, I’ll be posting a quick recap of the previous week’s mentions of the squad and anything else Impact related. Some of you actually have to work, rather than crawl the interwebs looking for the faintest mention of Marco Donadel’s Charlie-Brown-like bad luck, or Laurent Ciman’s always-rumored-but-never-witnessed happy face. So, I do it for you.

Guys, I missed you. Man, it's been a long two weeks. How am I, as merely a mortal man, going to be able to recap everything that has happened? Simple! Cut out a bunch of important things! I also had to cut out a long diatribe on synthetic surfaces...Ah, who am I kidding! OF COURSE I INCLUDED IT!





Here we go, these are your weekly bites:





I'm gonna start off with the elephant in the room: Bakary Soumare . I've had a lot of time to take in what happened this past week, and spoke to many other analysts in order to figure out how to feel about it all. Basically, for those who missed it, former Impact defender Bakary Soumare did an interview on Tony Marinaro's TSN690 show (the interview has been removed from TSN.com). In that interview, he went on a wild storytelling rant, launching accusations at many members of the Impact front office, Nick DeSantis in particular. The interview was all over the place. Within days, he was served a Cease & Desist letter by the Impact, and he did what any other reasonable person would do...he posted it on Twitter. Then, as any lawyer would surely suggest, called a press conference on a layover in Montréal to face the city's media, only to continue the same longwinded and rambling accusations. Now, Soumare has obviously been dealing with significant issues in recent times, posting an emotional letter on Facebook about his (supposedly self-diagnosed) autism . It also goes without saying that he must also be dealing with consequences of a significant concussion her suffered last year that forced his retirement. This situation is sad, and as a CBC Montreal writer tweeted from the presser , Soumare came across as a 'broken man'. At MRS, we're having a hard time figuring this one out, and want nothing to do with criticizing a man who perhaps shouldn't be in front of a mic at this point in his life. Could his accusations have merit? Perhaps. The team has often been criticized as lacking transparency, and being a family operation. However, what concerns us more is that the league and team did not step in after his concussion to follow up and act as a support for a former player. Here are the articles worth reading about the situation, it's hard to make heads or tails of it. We think he just really needs someone to talk to. [ RDS ][ RDS ][ RDS ][ LaPresse ][ JdeM ][ LeFooteur



