On Daniels’ progression so far within the club

Aidan’s an interesting story for me in that I wish I could remember the year, but my very first year at TFC he was with a group that went to South Africa, to be able to play with the Academy team there and performed at a very high level, and you can kind of see through the Academy up to his time with us to his introduction to the first team he’s always been ready for each step of the way. He’s a very intense player in the sense that he’s very focused, very critical of his performance. When he’s not playing well he knows he’s not playing well, but when he’s confident he really plays well. I think he’s a really good example of how TFC as an organization can bring a talent along to the point that he’ll be successful.

On what it will take to find the next level in his playing career

Consistency, and to be able to deal with the rough patches, to just know that this is part of the game, these are things that occur. To the extent that he knows who he is, his strengths and weaknesses, and that he knows how to dig himself out of situations, but then also when things are going really well to understand why things are going really well. I think a lot of times with younger players they just think they’re playing well because they’re playing well or they’re playing poorly because they’re playing poorly, they don’t really have an idea of how it all fits in the grand scheme of a career, so I think for him, his knowledge and wisdom are coming along every day and that awareness piece is going to be a strong part for him to become a good pro in the future.