It’s far from a ringing endorsement of the work being done by Toronto FC head coach Aron Winter, but his boss is feeling more upbeat about the club these days.

“It feels better than it did two weeks ago and hopefully we can build from there,” Tom Anselmi, executive vice-president and chief operating officer of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment said Tuesday as TFC showed off its new training centre in Downsview.

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Anselmi said defeats of the Vancouver Whitecaps to earn a fourth straight Canadian title last Wednesday and the Philadelphia Union Saturday to end a record nine-game losing streak to open the Major League Soccer season were “a couple of nice wins.”

But he refused to talk about what it means for the future of Winter. The second-year coach has led TFC to the semifinals of CONCACAF Champions League, a first for a Canadian team, and captured two Canadian championships, but has also compiled an abysmal 7-22-15 record in MLS, including the 0-9-0 start to the 2012 season.

“I’m not going to answer or speculate on what might or might not happen,” Anselmi said. “At the end of the day, we’re in the job of trying to win games and a year that started off with 50,000 people and everybody doing the happy dance over at the Rogers Centre (in Champions League quarter-finals against the Los Angeles Galaxy) went sideways.

“It’s been a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde thing and I think at the end of the day we’ve just got to get down to business and start winning games and doing what our fans are expecting.

“The regular season in MLS is clearly a measuring stick of success. And, hopefully, this weekend (winning over Philadelphia) was a start.”

TFC 1-9-1 remains in 19th place in the 19-team MLS. The Reds, who are now off until June 16 for a league break for World Cup qualifying, are 15 points out of the fifth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference with 24 games to play.

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