Landon Donovan

All right, LD, MLS news and notes.

Your neck of the woods, San Diego FC.

Chucky Lozano not back or not in the plans for 2026.

Your thoughts, and I know you have a few.

Well, my take is similar.

Like, I think that from an exit strategy, they handled it well.

You know, obviously front-facing-wise, I think they...

They handled it well.

The issue is, and this will never not be an issue, is you know this as well as I do.

You cannot miss on big DPs because when you miss on big DPs, this is what it looks like.

The player basically has the power, right?

7.6 million a year.

Like when you're not in MLS, right?

And I can think of a laundry list of...

examples in england big clubs big player arrogant he said i i ain't doing nothing i'm down in tools and i'm taking my money because you owe me 200 grand a week what happens is they go because they have a reserve system set up you're not even training with the reserves you're gonna go train with the 18s you're gonna do double sessions with the 18s and if you don't do every single session we tell you we're gonna whack you we're gonna find you

Right?

They embarrass you.

Then they say, because of the structure, LD, teams actually get let off the hook because you get a big-name player and everybody thinks they can turn a big-name player who's got a bad attitude into a top striker at their club.

So you've got all these clubs pandering for, like, loan moves.

Right?