Tom Bogert

What I was told is that it wasn't just a Chucky versus Mikey Vares situation.

It seems that the other players weren't thrilled with his reaction.

Ironically, Chucky Lozano goes out of the game.

They score four goals in the second half.

They did really, really well kind of keeping this under wraps.

Nobody even noticed because that went into the international break.

Then the next game, Chucky's just not in the team.

And it's like, okay, well, he's had hamstring issues.

Like maybe it's either rest or maybe it's just a small tweak.

And then like Mikey Varsas kind of says like, yeah, not injury related.

And then like that kind of set off alarms.

And it turns out it was an internal suspension.

He gets brought back into the group.

But by the playoffs, he's not starting.

And San Diego are saying this is just a personnel decision, that we don't see a prominent role for Chucky Lozano this year, and Chucky's going to want to be playing more ahead of the World Cup just in general.

He was very productive when he was on the field.

I believe he had like 18 or 19 goal contributions, and his underlying numbers were solid too.

So...

It has to be more about the personality side of things and the way it is in the locker room because he was a productive player.

Maybe not quite up to the transfer fee and the salary that they were paying him, but I think it just makes sense for all parties to move on.