The LA Galaxy Gazette
Player ratings26 Jul 2027
Nobody could get near Marco Reus
Successful dribbles: 43. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market26 Jul 2027
Riqui Puig hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what LA Galaxy can pretend not to have heard.
Match26 Jul 2027
LA Galaxy refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 33 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Market26 Jul 2027
St. Louis CITY SC come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and LA Galaxy did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match24 Jul 2027
Still nobody has beaten LA Galaxy
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Tempers go at LA Galaxy
João Klauss 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Aaron Herrera 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.
Match24 Jul 2027
Riqui Puig sends LA Galaxy past San Jose Earthquakes
It finished 1‑0, and it was Riqui Puig’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to LA Galaxy.
Player ratings26 Jul 2027
Riqui Puig takes the honours
Marked 7.99 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, LA Galaxy had the best player on the pitch.
In brief
- Squad Maya Yoshida gets it from the manager
- Squad Justin Wright signs a new deal
- Market Atlanta United FC are about to pick up the phone