That would be the Los Angeles Galaxy, folks. It's such a contrast to the league's first ten years. During the past three years, no original MLS team has turned over more players or coaches. Luis and I sometimes debate which trade or move hurt the team most, but that's like trying to assess each individual straw on a camel's back after it's broken. Click to continue reading...

The Galaxy has always had a history of former players doing damage in the league. Before, I couldn't figure out if it was bad scouting that led to the release of so many players that did well elsewhere or perhaps just the natural consequence of trades, or maybe just roster limitations that did not allow the Galaxy to keep all of their players. Click to continue reading...

With the finish line in sight, the coach of the year award in MLS seems to be headed down towards two candidates. Many coaches have done well this year and there is still a huge portion of the season remaining, so perhaps someone else will distinguish themselves.

For now, though, we've narrowed it down to Sigi Schmid and Frank Yallop. Click to continue reading...

I'm trying not to make this such a Columbus love fest here but when your hot it has to be noted and right now the Columbus Crew are indeed hot. The main reason is because of the way things are clicking on the offensive side of the ball and also to a degree on the [...] Click to continue reading...

Or at least they are tied with the 2006 team as the worst ever.

By running their winless streak to 10 games with a 2-2 tie Saturday against the New England Revolution, the Galaxy tied the mark for the longest winless stretch in club history, first set in 2006 when the Galaxy went 0-8-2 from May 6 until June 24.

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Here's some of Preki's thoughts after his team split points with the 'Quakes. There's not going to be any video of Frank Yallop, because he didn't do a post-game presser.

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Yesterday the news had come down that Ruud Gullit and Alexi Lalas were on their way out of the LA Galaxy, but I didn't have the energy to write a post on it (Monday is my extended work day). After reading around it's just the latest chapter in MLS' premier soap opera. I'm not at all surprised that something like this happened at the Galaxy, especially after a very unsexy seven-match winless streak in a season where significant progress had to be shown. Click to continue reading...

After Frank Yallop resigned, I was wondering if the head coaching position at the Galaxy might be offered to Cobi Jones. It wasn't, of course, at least not directly.

Thing is, when I was talking to Cobi about becoming Ruud's assistant, back when they were introduced together as a team, there was one thing he made expressly clear. Click to continue reading...

Previously in the past couple of weeks we at MLSR have been trying to connect the dots between rumors that Alexi Lalas would get the sack, to Donovan's new found interest in going to Europe, Pete Vagenas possibly wanting to go to China, to the recent news that Galaxy manager, Ruud Gullit put his house up for sale. Click to continue reading...

Sam, commenting in this post, reprints portions of an SI.com article from Jonah Freedman, which goes in-depth on some of the goings-on in the wake of the recent miserable performance of the Los Angeles Galaxy on the field. I figured this kind of this deserves its own posting.

Here's how the article starts:

The soap opera that is the Los Angeles Galaxy just gets weirder and weirder.

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Four shutouts and one shootout accounted for Week 19 of the MLS season. DC United was on the winning side of a shutout for a change this season, the first time that's happened in 2008, but Zach Wells just had to make things interesting.

Meanwhile, LA was rattled by the 'Quakes just five days after LA was rattled by a quake. Click to continue reading...

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Somebody stop Real Salt Lake. No, really.

RSL won another home game last week, beating Toronto FC on a late Robbie Findley goal last week to move four points clear of the pack in the Western Conference.

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It seems like Frank Yallop and John Doyle have turned into Trader Joe here this summer. Over the last couple of weeks the club has made a few moves in hopes to push themselves towards a playoff birth (they currently sit seven points out of a spot). Today the club has announced the signing of Spanish [. Click to continue reading...

Remember way back in March when we told you that Alexi Lalas was in the hot seat and that if things did not change drastically for the LA Galaxy his head would roll? Well it appears that the real powers behind the Galaxy namely, the men who orchestrated the Beckham deal namely, Phil Anshutz and Tim Leweke are not happy according to Steve Goff. Click to continue reading...

(Apologies for this post getting up several days late. It was supposed to run in mid-week but a technical glitch caused it not to be posted.)

What happens when a team that can't win two in a row faces a team that can't win?

You get a tie.

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I'm watching the San Jose-Colorado match and I saw two things that I you don't see every day:

- San Jose scored a goal
- Frank Yallop got sent off

First, the goal. Ryan Johnson smashed a diving header past Bouna Coundoul with about 30 minutes left in the game. Unfortunately for the 'Quakes, Conor Casey equalized about five minutes after. Click to continue reading...

http://thestar.blogs.com/torontofc/According to Toronto's The Star blog, Darren Huckerby is interested in joining San Jose, however Toronto put a discovery claim on Huckerby months ago, so both clubs are now in discussions over compensation so that Huckerby can join Frank Yallop's club once the transfer window opens. Click to continue reading...

It took a lot longer than some might have expected, but Chivas USA has made the rugged climb from near the West basement to first place in the conference. Sure, the gap between first place and sixth place is only three points, but for the Goats, the climb was a victory of sorts.

Moral victories is all the Earthquakes seem to have these days, and even those are hard to come by.

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From Jeff Carlisle over at centerlinesoccer.com (click here for the original):



According to San Jose Earthquakes manager Frank Yallop, the only obstacle remaining in the team's pursuit of midfielder Francisco Lima is for the Brazilian to hash out the fine print with MLS on a contract. Click to continue reading...

After spending the last few seasons in Norway, Ramiro Corrales is looking to return to MLS

Corrales was part of the inaugural San Jose team, but also had playing time with Miami and the MetroStars. However, since he ended his MLS years with San Jose, who then moved to Houston, the Dynamo have the rights to his MLS future. Click to continue reading...

Oh, boy! "A chance to relive the Galaxy season! I never got the expression stop beating a dead horse." Why not? It's not going to get any deader. You'd prefer to beat live horses? That's cruel. I'm not with that. Click to continue reading...

Oh, boy! "A chance to relive the Galaxy season! I never got the expression stop beating a dead horse." Why not? It's not going to get any deader. You'd prefer to beat live horses? That's cruel. I'm not with that. Click to continue reading...

Don't you hate it when bloggers take holidays off? What's worse is, I was near a computer the whole time. Problem was, this was literally the only soccer thought I had: "Wow. David Beckham is misused, can't carry a substandard, badly-coached team to the next round. All I need is a punchline. [... Click to continue reading...

1. Ryan Cochrane 2. Clarence Goodson 3. Ned Grabavoy 4. James Riley 5. Joseph Vide 6. Ivan Guerrero 7. Brian Carroll 8. Jason Hernandez 9. Gavin Glinton 10. Chris Pozniak Big money guys are almost never taken in these things, so I can't be surprised that guys like Mathis, Vanney and Kirovski were left [. Click to continue reading...

The San Jose Earthquakes are back and now they have poached some players. Frank Yallop looked all around the unprotected league and decided these were the 10 players he wants to build the new version of the 'Quakes around.

There are sure to be some trades on the way soon (perhaps even before this message posts), but for now, here is the roster for the reborn San Jose Earthquakes. Click to continue reading...

In 2000 Ipswich finally reached the EPL via the playoffs after several years heartbreak.� They did this under the guidance of George Burley who'd been in charge at Portman Road for over five years and a squad of players who reminded fairly much the same season-to-season by selling only a couple of players to bigger [...] Click to continue reading...

I'll get to my opinion on Ruud Gullit, but it ain't like there's a big hurry or anything. (One sentence preview: I'm if anything more excited about the Cobester as his assistant, although I know for a FACT that Cobi hasn't been scouting college players this year.) But it's the Galaxy's offseason, I [...] Click to continue reading...

"As a person, I'm glad [FrankYallop] got away from this" Landon Donovan

Previously I didn't think much of the rumors of Yallop and / or Landon to the San Jose Earthquakes. There wasn't much behind them. But Yallop's left LA and joined San Jose. And now Lannycakes is publicly saying things like this. Will he be leaving Los Angeles soon, too? Click to continue reading...

Jeff Carlisle: One general perception of Yallop's tenure in L.A. is that he spent much of his time feuding with Galaxy general manager Alexi Lalas over personnel. Luis Bueno, back in October (towards the bottom of the page in the comments): This is what Alexi Lalas said about trades. "I don't want to do anything that would ever saddle [...] Click to continue reading...

It's been a day now since I heard about Yallop's departure from the HDC. I still think it's a mistake to let him go. Now, I'm afraid the AEG brain trust will make an even bigger mistake. Seriously, Queiroz did an awful job with the Metros. Why would he do any [...] Click to continue reading...

Frank Yallop is leaving the Galaxy to go back to San Jose when they become the newest expansion team next year.� Even newer news is that Bruce Arena and the NY Red Bulls will no longer be working together.

So what is going to happen in the now vacant coaching positios in NY and LA?� Maybe Bruce will just move to LA?� I doubt it but I really don't know what is going to happen.

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A friend of mine once told me that "Welcome Back, Kotter" was actually a tragedy. Gabe Kotter gives up his dream of fame as a stand-up comedian and goes crawling back to the high school he wanted to escape. He is shunted into a class of at-risk youth, and his mission is to [...] Click to continue reading...

Holy crap, things are moving quickly today! As I started my web-trawling, what's the first thing I see? A "rumor" that Head Coach, Technical Director Bruce Arena got canned by Red Bull New York, one that Sports Illustrated picked off Soccer by Ives, again, a source I don't feel like publishes stories lightly. So...Arena's [...] Click to continue reading...

Lalas should have done everything in his power to prevent this. Instead, it now looks like he did everything in his power to make this happen. The worst bit is the SJ will now get him. Like I said, Huge Mistake! UPDATE:� It looks like Arena is gone too.� � Silly me, I was sure Colorado would be [...] Click to continue reading...

Frank Yallop will no longer be Alexi Lalas's whipping boy as he has said 'good bye and good luck' to the Galaxy in favor of guiding the reborn San Jose Earthquakes again.

Yallop told LA's players after Sunday afternoon's charity exhibition match against Hollywood United. This move comes right before the Galaxy start their post-season world tour. Click to continue reading...