Alessio Lalas
Football analyst
When the LA Galaxy take to the sphere on Saturday in opposition to the New York Red Bulls within the MLS Cup last, they are going to accomplish that with out their midfielder Riqui Puig.
Puig, who joined the LA Galaxy in 2022 on a free switch from FC Barcelona, suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament within the Galaxy’s semi-final win in opposition to the Seattle Sounders on November 30. He performed the ultimate half-hour of the match with a torn anterior cruciate ligament and remarkably assisted Dejan Joveljić’s successful purpose.
There isn’t any timetable for Puig’s return, however the expectation is that he’ll miss most, if not all, of the 2025 MLS season. The Galaxy should discover a method to make up for the lack of Puig, who tallied 15 objectives and 13 assists in 29 appearances for LA this season and was named within the league’s finest XI alongside his former Barcelona teammates Lionel Messi and Jordi Alba.
Would Gio Reyna be somebody Galaxy considers an appropriate alternative for Puig within the quick time period?
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Reyna, initially, is offered. And, in fact, he is American and wishes a spot to play.
Since becoming a member of Dortmund from New York City FC’s academy in 2019, Reyna has performed simply 141 video games in all competitions. He additionally had an unsuccessful mortgage spell within the Premier League with Nottingham Forest in January.
From a positional perspective, he isn’t Riqui Puig, however he truly has some related qualities to Puig. For a few years now, even when the Galaxy have been struggling, it was apparent that Riqui Puig was a top quality participant, and this season he lastly had some high quality round him, and ran the present in a kind of return to the previous.
From the Galaxy’s perspective, it isn’t about getting Reyna’s profession again on observe; it is about getting the very best out there participant on the market who, maybe, can come near what Puig does.
Some time in the past, Landon Donovan prompt to Christian Pulisic, who was struggling to seek out house at Chelsea on the time and was searching for a brand new membership, to maneuver to the MLS as a result of he would have the understanding that he would play. Lots of people gave him shit for this.
Now, with lower than two years till the 2026 World Cup on dwelling soil, Reyna finds himself in an analogous place with Dortmund, the proposition appears much less far-fetched. We’ll see what occurs within the January switch window.
Alexi Lalas is a soccer analyst for FOX Sports and host of the “Alexi Lalas State of the Union Podcast.” He represented the USMNT on the 1994 FIFA World Cup and had a nine-year skilled profession. In 2006, he turned president of the LA Galaxy and helped deliver David Beckham to Major League Soccer.
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