Marked for Ryan Moore
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Squad8 Feb 2027
77 days out for Maya Yoshida 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Kyogo Furuhashi and LA Galaxy agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Feb 2027
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.
Market8 Feb 2027
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Market8 Feb 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sean Steffen has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Ryan Moore 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.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Justin Haak, and the manager let it.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Pablo Ruiz's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Pablo Ruiz 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.
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Steady
Squad1 Feb 2027
85 days out for Maya Yoshida 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.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Pablo Ruiz: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” LA Galaxy have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market1 Feb 2027
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at LA Galaxy heard it as anything else.
Market1 Feb 2027
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Carlos Garcés wants continental football; whether LA Galaxy can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad1 Feb 2027
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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Ryan Moore 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.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
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 dugout1 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Brady Scott
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad1 Feb 2027
The captaincy has been taken off Riqui Puig. LA Galaxy will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
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Steady
Squad25 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Maya Yoshida out for 94 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason LA Galaxy will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Justen Glad 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Ryan Moore and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Steady
Squad14 Dec 2026
A row about effort at LA Galaxy
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Hirving Lozano was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market14 Dec 2026
Riqui Puig wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Market14 Dec 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. John Robinson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market14 Dec 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Gio Howard is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Ryan Moore 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.
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at LA Galaxy
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Hirving Lozano was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad26 Oct 2026
7 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at LA Galaxy
Ryan Moore 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Justin Haak, and the manager let it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Lucas Sanabria knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at LA Galaxy, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Justin Haak is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
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Steady
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.58 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market14 Sep 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at LA Galaxy heard it as anything else.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at LA Galaxy training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hirving Lozano 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.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Hirving Lozano. 2‑1 against Portland Timbers, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Ryan Moore 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Justin Haak
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Adam Adams, on a 2‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
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Crisis
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for LA Galaxy
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Hirving Lozano 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.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
Philadelphia Union will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Olivier Mbaizo has pre-agreed a move to LA Galaxy, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Match29 Aug 2026
Houston Dynamo left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Hirving Lozano
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match29 Aug 2026
Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Joseph Paintsil had LA Galaxy level again within 4 minutes, and Houston Dynamo never got to play with a lead at all.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at LA Galaxy
7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Adam Adams after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.