Gerry Dobson

Mo Johnston.

Watch Soccercentral Saturday, March 20 at 1 p.m. ET for an exclusive interview with Mo Johnston.

With one week remaining before Season 4 gets underway for Toronto FC, the anxiety over the competitiveness of this team is at an all-time high.

Apart from Year One when the love affair with Canada's first MLS team was in full bloom, there has never been this much scrutiny heading into the start of a season (assuming there is one).

The team has dumped four major salaries in Carl Robinson, Adrian Serioux, Pablo Vitti and Amado Guevara, although TFC will still be on the hook for part of Robinson's pay cheque.

Replacements have been sketchy. It remains to be seen how useful both Ty Harden and Jacob Peterson will be. And what about that shaky backline? In my opinion their best defender is Nana Attakora and he makes less than the rest of them.

And where will the goals come from?

With Ali Gerba sent home, perhaps never to return, and Chad Barrett starting the season injured, O'Brian White is the only pure striker, if he's any good.

So many questions, so few answers.

On Soccercentral Saturday at 1 p.m. ET you'll see TFC director of soccer Mo Johnston in an interview from Charleston to address these issues.

Maybe it won’t be to your satisfaction, and perhaps not mine either.

The boss has been hard to pin down and is reluctant to say much on any topic these days. He probably has as much anxiety as anyone over the lack of improvement to his roster in the off-season. But it’s all at his feet. He's the one who has shaped and moulded this club into what it is.

They wanted Dwayne DeRosario, they got him.

They wanted Julian DeGuzman as a designated player, they got him.

They wanted a wily head coach experienced in the unique ways of MLS, they got Preki. They wanted real grass at BMO Field and they'll have it for their home opener.

There are no more excuses.

Pre-season has not been kind to TFC.

There’s been a lack of discipline a lack of scoring and lack of wins.

Of course none of this matters if they start winning when the real games begin. But I keep remembering what Preki said at the news conference the day he was hired.

"I won't make any promises," he said. "We will win someday but I can't say how soon." Year four should not be designated as a re-building year, but I wonder if that's how Preki privately sees it.