Hirving Lozano

So that's terrible for him, but he was out anyway.

They brought in Chucky Lozano on loan from San Diego, who was in exile in San Diego.

San Diego was like, we're not... going to play you again tell your agent to find a club and chuki's like i like living in san diego i'm just gonna hang out so you can play me or not i'll be here though ended up loaning him to the galaxy just on for the rest of the season he's injured now so he's not gonna play in this game another new player for la galaxy is robert taylor he has 13 starts Two goals, four assists.

So okay numbers, but the fact that he started 13 games for them when he could not get on the field for us when he first joined and then wasn't healthy for a lot of the time after that, the fact that he's starting and being productive for them now is a little bit frustrating.

And then the offseason comes along.

And you're thinking about the Chucky Lozano and all of the drama that was kind of going on behind the scenes.

And then effectively the evolution of a roster that was going to maybe divest of guys like Patty McNair or Franco Negri and those type of guys.

And then try to build into this new roster.

It's tough to look at them and not draw comparisons to St. Louis, who similarly took the West by storm in their first season, and then really... through a variety of causes, fell off the following year.

You know, the elements of their game that were a surprise in that first season were less surprising in the second.

They lost some firepower in, you know, the whole Chucky Lozano soap opera, the Days of Our Lives elements of it.

him finally leaving they've brought in a new player but it doesn't really seem like he's hit the ground running in the same way they also just play a very high risk high reward game and you know when you gamble realistically you don't have that much control over what happens you're just throwing your bets out and hoping that it works out all right and it has not worked out all right this season.

I think SDFC cut themselves off at the knees to have any chance to compete this season.

And no, I'm not necessarily talking about Chucky Lozano.

Although when they, at the beginning of the year, announced that Chucky Lozano would not be part of sporting plans going forward, they neither moved him nor replaced him until all the way after the World Cup when they get Elias Ceturi, and they do the loan to put Chucky in your path at least once, uh, by loaning him to LA Galaxy.

He's still actually under contract for SDFC.

But Chucky hasn't been great and wasn't great with the Galaxy before he recently got hurt, and probably maybe will be out, uh, for the next meeting between the two.

It's just the way I see it right now.

I think the Galaxy are gonna beat SDFC, uh, on Saturday night.

I think they're gonna take care of business, but they're probably gonna do it without Chucky Lozano, who just, point of fact, has barely done anything.