It’ll suck to lose him so soon but he hasn’t been great this season so getting the most we can is crucial. Im sure he’s happy to leave this dumpster fire; I hope it goes well for him in Portugal.
Araujo goes right away right. No end of season crap or similar. He signs by next week and he's gonzo. Leerdam... Jesus!
I'll be sad to see Julian gone as well. I know he regressed a bit later last season, but he has been one of the few bright spots for the Galaxy the last several seasons.
He needs to take the next step and leaving to play in Europe is that step. Hope this is a turning point for the Galaxy and we can start giving young players more chances. At worst, you have MLS depth. At best, you make money selling your best players.
Yes he does. If he does get sold, hopefully he'll take full advantage of the experience. I think he has the resolve to do so. Excited for him to play in Champions League and to see where his career goes.
^Echo what everyone says above. He's been one of the constants for the team, so this would be yet another bummer. Not excited about Leerdam either. At all.
Play Neal in Araujo's spot as a defensive rcb with Depuy or Sega + Der and let Edwards get forward as a lwb. Who should play rwb? I was thinking Aguirre but I don't know too much about him. Is there anybody better? wb is easier to play than cmid (less complicated anyway).
Some more detail on Puig, including quotes from Vanney about his role in the potential formations we use (which don’t include the 3-5-2 incidentally). His story and the criticism of him sounds kind of like Efra. With ESPN colleague @samuelmarsden... #LAGalaxy can offer ex-Barcelona prospect Riqui Puig a reset after struggles, coaching carousel. https://t.co/FTKzjKoi7x— Jeff Carlisle (@JeffreyCarlisle) August 9, 2022
Two things I want to point out: 1. Leerdam has been mediocre to poor for us, but I don't think he is a terrible defender. He played for Seattle pretty well, and had an average year at Miami. He needs defensive support, and I think he will do a serviceable job. Only question is will he get support? 2. Rumor is we were after Sergi Roberto and that kind of died down once the MLS transfer window closed, but with us selling Araujo, maybe Barca will buy him out considering they need to free up wages, and we are swooping in? $5million will get us a lot of money to buy down a contract.
Man U might take him up on this at the rate they are going Chicharito: “If United came for me then I’d say: ‘Yes, I’ll play for free.’" https://t.co/NLWAT02E7U— Pro Soccer Wire (@prosoccerwire) August 10, 2022
https://www.instagram.com/p/ChFelhcJQkr/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link "Months before Gareth Bale joined LAFC, Bale had a verbal agreement to join LA Galaxy. However, at that time LA Galaxy officials had to make a choice between Douglas Costa or Gareth Bale and LA Galaxy officials decided to go with Costa due to it being “a better deal”. " That's OK, because we didn't need a scorer.
If that is true then this team is run by world class idiots or else the don’t give a fk about results and just want to save $ and make a buck. Either way it is criminal and they should all be fired on the spot. What a shitshow this organization has become.
If that's true, then they aren't good at making a buck either. Costa doesn't move the needle at all. There's certainly a scenario where Bale is just here to play golf, but he still makes more money for the Galaxy than Costa does even if Costa was better on the field. UPDATE: Corner of the Galaxy says that they hear the choice was really between Bale and Pavon and Pavon's legal case dragging on was a factor in not moving on Bale. That's still not a very good choice (legal case or not, Pavon was going to be damaged goods reputation-wise), but it's a little different from Bale v. Costa since they had history with Pavon So here's how I heard the story. Slightly different, but a lot of the same. It revolves around Pavon. Galaxy were ready to bring back Pavon (deal agreed) but couldn't sign him because of his court case not being resolved. (Cont.)#LAGalaxy #MLS https://t.co/3P6oGFa6Zj— Corner Of The Galaxy (@GalaxyPodcast) August 10, 2022
So sign Pavon but deal with repercussions of his legal case. Sign Bale but wait until summer. Sign Costa now. They panicked and signed Costa to an absolutely terrible deal to have him in “for preseason.” No matter how it’s spun, it’s not a good look for Klein, Vanney, Kirovski.
Well that is still dumb but it makes a little more sense. They were initially picking between Bale and an alleged rapist who is a proven scorer. If you ignore the allegations (which they definitely should not have ignored unless he was cleared) then on soccer terms alone the choice isn’t obvious. But PR wise Bale was clearly the better choice. He would have reinforced the Galaxy rep as the destination of international stars while bringing Pavon back would only tarnish the club’s name. So I’m going with picking Bale over Pavon in the first place. But it doesn’t matter. Because NONE of this excuses them going to Costa next. He had so many red flags he looked like a … (damn, wish I could think of something clever here.) Well you all know what he looked like! We should have gone back to Bale once our choice of Pavon predictably didn’t work out. Or gone for any of dozens of proven goal scorers around the world who would come play for the Galaxy for the multi-million dollar annual salaries DP players get. But noooo… we go for a lazy, ineffective, oft-injured has-been. Because that is what we do in the Klein era.
Just when you think this FO can't get worse, we find out more. Not only does Klein need to go, so does Beckerman for for not firing him earlier. It's time for AEG to sell the team.
That can't be true. I know they've made lots of poor player decisions, but the Galaxy FO couldn't possibly be that dumb.
I'm leaning towards what CoG reported, they decided to go with the cheaper option in Pavon and not the guy that would put butts in the seat and I also believe they wanted someone long term and Bale is not a long term signing. they lost out on both and panicked and signed the only "name" player they were familiar with and signed Costa because they wanted to do something and in reality they did a lot worse, in this case not doing anything was a thousands times better then doing something