Ruben Ramos

Attacking Midfielder (L) - LA Galaxy U20
17 Sep 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Ruben Ramos

101 Edition

The LA Galaxy Gazette

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

LA Galaxy up to position 3

28 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Squad

John McCarthy keeps LA Galaxy in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

Joseph Paintsil runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

LA Galaxy may not be able to give Joseph Paintsil what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Joseph Paintsil wants continental football; whether LA Galaxy can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

Tempers go at LA Galaxy

Novak Mićović was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Words at LA Galaxy training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joseph Paintsil is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief

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99 Edition

The LA Galaxy Gazette

19 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Joseph Paintsil runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at LA Galaxy

Joseph Paintsil was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Words at LA Galaxy training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jakob Glesnes is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief

45 Edition

The LA Galaxy Gazette

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Cup progress for LA Galaxy

A 4‑1 win over Real Salt Lake, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Market

Carlos Garcés puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at LA Galaxy, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Lucas Sanabria shuts the door

Defensive actions: 31, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Squad

Ruben Ramos takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Player ratings

Maya Yoshida, 38, rolls back the years — 8.15

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.15 at 38, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Match

Still nobody has beaten LA Galaxy

The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Tempers go at LA Galaxy

Riqui Puig was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market

Joseph Paintsil wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at LA Galaxy hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Jakob Glesnes falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief