The Los Angeles Football Club Gazette
Squad30 Nov 2026
Denis Bouanga 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 Los Angeles Football Club this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market30 Nov 2026
Igor Jesus has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Los Angeles Football Club can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Los Angeles Football Club
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Amin Boudri was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Andrew Tarbell
“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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Wages eat 94% of everything Los Angeles Football Club earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Heung-Min Son has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Los Angeles Football Club 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.
Market30 Nov 2026
Denis Bouanga linked with a move away
The name of Denis Bouanga keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Los Angeles Football Club say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Justin Dhillon has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Justin Dhillon has written the date down.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager comes out for Heung-Min Son
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Heung-Min Son has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
In brief
- Squad Mark Delgado is the talk of the training ground
- Boardroom The Los Angeles Football Club board put their names to it
- Squad Michael Johnson is fit again