The Athletic Power Rankings (paywalled, sorry folks) https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/70...26-preseason-power-rankings-inter-miami-lafc/
As a possible reality check about preseason results, the Galaxy's wins v. MLS teams in preseason - a 1-0 victory over Portland, a 4-1 victory over DC and a 3-0 victory over St. Louis - were against teams in the Need to See Before I Believe and Rebuilding Tiers. It tied RSL 3-3, which is in the Need to See Before I Believe Tier, and it lost to Chicago 3-2, which is in the Probably Good, but not Good Enough Tier along with us.
Brian Sciaretta from American Soccer Now with the Western Conference version of his MLS Preview and Predictions
I want to give Vanney the benefit of the doubt and say last night was down to preseason rust and a lack of sharpness that will improve as we get into the MLS season. On the other hand that looked concerningly like every single bad team under Vanney since he got here that started off catastrophically slow and did not recover in time to make the playoffs. I hope this time if we start off terrible they don't wait too long to sack him and start fresh. I don't know how many games I can watch this year where we do a million short range passes that carry us to goal, only to fail to score over and over as the other team effortlessly scores a counter against us.
https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/refreshed-la-galaxy-enter-2026-with-title-aspirations This flew under the radar today, but there are some great new quotes in there from Kurtz and Vanney including: “It's just a tonnage thing that we really wanted to address,” explained Kuntz. “In the past, teams maybe felt tired after playing us, because they would be chasing and we'd have the ball a lot. But they weren't really sore, right? “This year, the idea is, they're tired, but they're also a little sore afterwards – maybe the ribs or their chest is a little bruised. I don't think that's the worst thing.”
People who know the game at a deeper level than me, is there anything a different manager could do with this lineup that would get more from this team? Is Vanney not using this group of players to their maximum potential or is it more that we have just built the squad out poorly over the last few years due to our salary cap situation?
Weird time to be a Galaxy fan. I feel like after the joy of 2024 we have just been stuck in a slump for a year and a half now. I think many fans are just waiting for the axe to fall on Vanney and for that era to close. It may not be fixed with a new manager but at least the FO can show us that the results matter and they will actually try to stop this from becoming a second lost season in a row.
I have no interest in watching the game tonight or any future game to be quite honest. This was unthinkable a few years ago, but the constant terrible, uninspired soccer and the lack of wins has made me value other things in my life. I hope there’s a coaching change soon. I think that will help motivate me to watch again.
Yeah, I am not going to another game until either the team gets better and starts winning some matches or the FO shows that results actually matter and make a coaching change. You come out to the stadium just to watch absolute drek. Not worth the time or money at the moment. Every game leaves me bummed out and there are plenty of things in life I have no choice but to engage with that bum me out to willfully get bummed out by my favorite sports team lol.
Nice interview involving a former G (Hercules Gomez) interviewing a current G (Joseph Paintsil) Great interview with Joseph Paintsil about growing up in Ghana, leaving home, being left off the last World Cup, and his current life as a LA Galaxy DP.“I want the Real G’s, those who supported us in 2024 to do so in good and bad times." #VamosPod pic.twitter.com/DljZdulYae— herculez gomez (@herculezg) April 10, 2026
thank you for posting, I'll need to listen to it a couple of more times, as I get what he is trying to say from his point of view but I feel he fails to see the fans point of view, and yes all the players and fans want to win, I just think there is two different points of view on how to get there
If I were at the game I'm not sure I would boo because it could be interpreted as an attack on the players, like Paintsil is reading it. I would be a sign person instead -- Time For Vanney to Go!! -- if that is allowed.
Good Point on the sign vs booing, I think the general consensus among fans is that through all the roster changes and the struggles the one constant is Vanney and I believe a lot of fans just want a change because they know what kind of results Vanney brings to the table and fans want more than the results he is producing. As far as the Paintsil comments, I'm perceiving it, as him saying, either you're with us or against us and the mention of the fans enjoying 24 shouldn't be jumping ship when things go bad, which to me sounds like he thinks we are all bandwagon fans and truth be told there is those types of people but he doesn't seem to take into account us "weirdos" that have daily discussions and strategic breakdowns about the Galaxy to pass the time between games. All in all I think Paintsil and the fans are on same wavelength, we have high expectations for our club and not whatever this is we are experiencing these past couple of years.
I have no problem with the Boo's at this stage of sucktitude. If you don't want to hear them, beat the last place team at home, or maybe win two games in a row. Staying silent just gets us more losing. Sorry Joseph...but Robbie Keane would deal with it just fine (by scoring).
found this interesting, the favorite teams of Los Angeles, pretty sad that the Galaxy barely beat out an OC Hockey team and are just above the Women's teams
The difference between LAFC, the Galaxy, and Angel City is negligible, suggesting the real issue is the domestic version of the sport and not the individual teams or their performance. The Angels, Clippers and Chargers should feel much worse about these numbers, because it's not about the sport or the domestic league, but that they are simply non-entities in a popular sport/league in this market.
The thing missing from this is it only appears to allow one team per person rather than one person gets to rank their favorite teams. It also doesn't include college teams.
very true due to the sports dynamics in LA, Soccer and Women's sports will be niche sports for a long time. it did get me curious, so I did a quick search and I found this article from 2017, it really doesn't cover all the sports teams but gives you an idea https://www.latimes.com/sports/mlb/la-sp-dodgers-lakers-20170418-story.html The Galaxy had 6% so it makes sense that they lost a bit more than half of that with LAFC and people who lost interest this article from 2020, shows the Galaxy at 6.2 percent which was an uptick from 2017 https://archive.is/keTgm and lastly this 2017 article had the Galaxy satisfying their fans the most, and that is a far cry from how I believe the fan base feels now. https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/2017/08/17/Franchises/LA-Teams/ so interesting stuff of how things have progressed, understandable that some of the numbers are lower due to more options and people settling on one team or sport to root for. however I do feel that the Galaxy dropped the ball on not capitalizing on what they had especially with fan satisfaction
good catch I hadn't noticed that, I did post some articles above but the data is not static so it can lead to multiple assumptions and can be manipulated to whatever the argument would be at the time