The LA Galaxy Gazette
Match25 Aug 2036
The view from the top for LA Galaxy
57 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.
Market25 Aug 2036
Jonathan Gómez is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at LA Galaxy is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market25 Aug 2036
Andrew Wright 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.
The dugout25 Aug 2036
Josh Zardes: 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.
Squad25 Aug 2036
A row about effort at LA Galaxy
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Noahkai Banks was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match23 Aug 2036
LA Galaxy keep winning on the road
3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Match23 Aug 2036
Dor Turgeman the difference as LA Galaxy beat Sporting Kansas City
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Dor Turgeman. 1‑0 against Sporting Kansas City, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad25 Aug 2036
Pedro Soma 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.
Player ratings25 Aug 2036
Nobody on the pitch touched Dor Turgeman
7.85, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. LA Galaxy had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
In brief
- The dugout Brandan Craig back under a manager who knows him
- Market Noah Cobb is free to find somewhere else
- The dugout The view from the dugout