The LA Galaxy Gazette
Market2 Nov 2026
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.
Squad2 Nov 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
When it matters, João Klauss plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The armband comes off Kyogo Furuhashi
LA Galaxy will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Kyogo Furuhashi 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.
Market2 Nov 2026
The JT Marcinkowski story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until JT Marcinkowski signs something — a contract at LA Galaxy or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
In brief
- Squad LA Galaxy give João Klauss the armband
- The dugout A door opens for Novak Mićović
- Squad Dylan Sargent back in training