The Los Angeles Football Club Gazette
Market19 Feb 2029
Los Angeles Football Club turn down San Jose Earthquakes for Darren Yapi
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets19 Feb 2029
Los Angeles Football Club bid $3.2M for Tyler Wolff
The offer went to Real Salt Lake this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets19 Feb 2029
Los Angeles Football Club bid $1.8M for Elijah Wynder
The offer went to LA Galaxy this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Tempers go at Los Angeles Football Club
David Martínez 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.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Yevhen Cheberko 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.
Market19 Feb 2029
The David Martínez talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Los Angeles Football Club know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Boardroom19 Feb 2029
The window opens at Los Angeles Football Club
A month in which every rumour is possible and most of them are nonsense. The manager has a list, the board has a number, and neither is telling the other the whole of it.
The dugout19 Feb 2029
Darren Yapi 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 Darren Yapi has written the date down.
The dugout19 Feb 2029
The manager plants his flag on Artem Smolyakov
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Artem Smolyakov’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
In brief
- Squad Daniel Steffen is training like a man with a point to make
- Squad Cameron Moore back in training