The LA Galaxy Gazette
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at LA Galaxy
Hirving Lozano and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market19 Oct 2026
LA Galaxy may not be able to give Pablo Ruiz what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Pablo Ruiz wants continental football; whether LA Galaxy can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at LA Galaxy training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas Sanabria 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.
Market19 Oct 2026
Carlos Garcés told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Carlos Garcés has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at LA Galaxy.
Squad19 Oct 2026
LA Galaxy lose DeAndre Howard
28 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad19 Oct 2026
8 new faces, and LA Galaxy are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Erik Thommy has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at LA Galaxy will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Carlos Garcés asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager makes Maya Yoshida a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at LA Galaxy. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
In brief
- Market The Riqui Puig talk will not go away
- The dugout João Klauss keeps his manager's vote