The LA Galaxy Gazette
Squad5 Feb 2029
38 days out for Sergi Roberto after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. LA Galaxy will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Connor Moore damages knee ligaments — 29 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 29 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market5 Feb 2029
Pedro de la Vega 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.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Sergi Roberto in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at LA Galaxy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Feb 2029
A row about effort at LA Galaxy
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lucas Sanabria was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout5 Feb 2029
No hiding place for Joseph Paintsil
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Joseph Paintsil, and the manager let it.
The dugout5 Feb 2029
Riqui Puig 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.
Market5 Feb 2029
Lucas Sanabria linked with a move away
The name of Lucas Sanabria keeps appearing in other people's back pages. LA Galaxy say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout5 Feb 2029
The manager makes Kyogo Furuhashi 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
- The dugout Isaiah Parente knocks on the manager’s door
- Boardroom LA Galaxy keep producing them
- Match Mid-table, and LA Galaxy know it