BY ADAM SERRANO
Robbie Keane looks to be on his way to Los Angeles.
A deal is in place for the Galaxy to sign the Ireland International, multiple sources told SBI on Friday. If Keane does come to the Home Depot Center, it would be in conjunction with a trade of Juan Pablo Angel from the Galaxy to clear a Designated Player slot for Keane.
Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena stated on Wednesday that the Galaxy were interested in adding to their attack and the experienced Keane fits the bill.
According to sources, the Galaxy are shopping Angel, with his preference being to go an East Coast team. Several East teams could use a striker, including D.C. United, Philadelphia and Columbus, but at this point it is unclear which team is the favorite to land the Colombian striker.
Keane, a Republic of Ireland international has played for a number of top clubs in England, spending the last two seasons on loan away from Tottenham Hotspur. During his time on loan, Keane played for Celtic and West Ham United. In recent days, Keane had been linked with a potential move to Leicester City.
More details will be posted as the story develops.
yeah you can Sticky…just gotta know which store and which manager to deal with. You may have to buy some jar of jam with it, but you certainly can use your foodstamps at Ross Dress for Less. As for you TommyOC, no kidding Ross stores in San Gabriel valley have like 10 galaxy jerseyz in each size
Great move. Keane is an exciting tenacious player who I’m sure the fans will enjoy.
JPA…this looks like it’s his last year. He just isn’t the same player anymore.
As an avid Ireland fan and someone who has followed Keane’s career since 2002, let me say this: Keane should be prolific in MLS. He scored 16 goals in 19 games for Celtic–who play in the SPL.
Keane might be 31, but he isn’t past it yet.
I believe you handicapped your own selling points when you started your paragraph with “San Jose.”
“Steven Lenhart” would have been another phrase that would handicap your pitch.
My heart cant take it…first the tv deal with Versus/nbc sports know this….gp galaxy
LA could throw another player in with Angel in a trade and maybe someone would bite. LA seems to have a lot of midfielders. Maybe they trade Angel and a good young prospect and another club gets a player for the future and they just have to carry Angel for half a season.
The pot calls the kettle black once again.
Got news for you – can’t buy stuff at Ross with food stamps, pal.
Yeah, if you want to be nitpicky, 400,000 is technically DP salary. Under 335,000 would keep him out of DP range.
Either way, the Galaxy might have been able to keep Buddle if they offered a salary closer to the DP threshold.
Robbie Keane is a natural born finisher, and will probably do well in MLS.
Great move by the gals.
lol! Pardo is 35 too, right? or, um, 24
agree
Yes, it’s blatant rationalization. Like I said, I can’t really defend it… I can just offer some post facto justifications.
As for the Galaxy, they’re a victim of the league rules they often help redefine. They’re the rightful 2010 champs if you ask any European league follower: Best record usually nets you the title “champion,” does it not? RSL won ’09 MLS Cup despite representing the wrong conference.
The Chivas ticketing people are fantastic, and they really do go the extra mile for the fans, but I just don’t think they’re reaching enough people. They call me all the time to try to sell me tickets but I have a brand new baby (eats up a lot of my time) and I now live just over 2 and a half hours away from Carson (a little too far to be driving all the time.) It’s almost to the point where I feel bad when they call and I have to turn them down. It’s not that I don’t want to go, it’s just far and the cost of parking is staggering (seriously, it’s like buying my ticket all over again.)
San Jose needs a target forward bad right now. We have nice weather and the traffic is better than in LA. It would be a good move for the Quakes. They need someone up top to at least draw some defenders from Wondo.
Kleisjtan
lol well said
Excellent reminder!
No clue how I could’ve forgotten about Nick, considering this fun-fact: We both played together for the same high school. Of course, whereas he was a varsity starter, I couldn’t get field time for JV. 😉 lol. (He’s C/O ’97, me ’98.)
I missed the reply button. My bad.
I went to a Chivas match when I was in LA earlier this year. A woman with the ticket office called me a couple weeks after the game trying to get me to buy more tickets. She was really upset when she found out I was from out of town and actually went there to see the Crew. Then she started telling me stories about how she went to college with Andy Iro. They seem to be trying, but I question their marketing strategy …
If I didn’t detect some sort of facetiousness in your voice, I’d be heading my way over to Ross for some cheap Galaxy jerseys.
On another note, Seattle isn’t paying for anything. If they were, they’d have three DPs as well, wouldn’t they?
As it is, they can’t even afford natural grass. Or, you know, a stadium of their own.
Well done!
Disagreed. The Galaxy are spending the 4 mil, not the league. The Galaxy are not at all responsible to spread the 4 mil around so that other teams can buy developing players under contract elsewhere, they are only responsible for putting a good team on the field.
That’s rationalization.
Yes, you are correct, LA and Beckham (who is playing really well for the first time in his entire stint) have helped market the MLS brand, and the domestic league.
It’s still anti-competitive…and Karma has prevented LA from winning an MLS cup in the Beckham era, for now (You have to think they’re far and away favorites this year).
What crawled up your arse?
Rimando, Edu, Conrad, Hejduk…
$4 million is what I’ve been hearing. In the soccer world that may not be a lot but in MLS that’s a huge sum. While I welcome him with open arms to LA I just don’t understand the thinking behind this move. MLS could pick up 20 great prospects from around the world and distribute them to each team for that kind of money. While I’m a Galaxy fan first I truly believe in improving the quality of the league.
Cool story, bro.
The Packers streak held up for a long time. That was not a dumb stat.
Keane brings attention to MLS, so believe me you bunch of unemployed losers posting on soccer blog websites during the middle of the day this will happen. Garber will make it so. My guess is that LA will “pay” some of JPA’s remaining salary so that some Eastern team can afford him at a lower price. Who are we kidding here, we know its Seattle paying for all this anyway. Well, off to an LA area Ross store where they currently have tons of Galaxy jerseys for 20 bucks.
pretty sure he is talking about “half salary” as in the season is half over, not LAG paying up, which would still count against the cap.
Beckham to Spurs opens up the DP slot.
Awesome news!
hopefully I can be there to welcome Robbie to the HDC in short order
Keane playing target striker with Donovan playing behind him like him and Agudelo did on Wednesday with Juninho, Stephens, and Beckham feeding them would be LETHAL. Then Bruce Arena would ignore that and stack 10 in defense and wait for the perfect counterattack possibility and win games 1-0.
I wonder if the Galaxy give JPA a free transfer to somewhere in South America right before the transfer window closes to they can bring in Keane. I don’t see an MLS team paying his salary and LA probably won’t pay off his salary while he plays for their competition, even though that would be ideal.
That’s a deceptive answer. Yeah, only half his salary. But they only have half the cap as well.
The bottom line is even if LAG paid for part of JPA’s salary and traded him to free up a DP slot, who would take JPA for….$200k (in other words, not even a DP salary)? He’s been playing with a good team all year, players like Becks and Donovan that can provide great service and he hasn’t even been mediocre. He’s at the point in his career where his value is as a finisher….and he’s not finishing. Anyone with a fake or field turf field isn’t going to want him b/c of the increased risk of injury.
Yeah that is dp
None of them have the money. At his age, if you are not getting a good check, it probably is just not worth punishing your body more.
I think that’s a good thing
Bet LA wished they’d have simply doubled Buddle’s salary. He isn’t being paid much right now – somewhere around $400,000. That’s not even DP range. They could have had their Buddle and DP too!
Some teams are screaming for that. They’d thank the Galaxy.
+2 . . . funny
Point taken… but Becks was 31/32 when he came here as well. 🙂 Becks gets a quasi-pass for his resistance to fit in simply because he showed up and put in an honest 90 of work when he was fit & healthy – and that made a ton of difference.
If Keane can forego an attitude adjustment and put in honest work, he could be an even bigger contribution to the team than Becks. Immediate results with none of the drama. One can hope!
If he has an attitude and workrate more like (07-09 NYRB) JPA and less Smith or Ljungberg, Keane might just be the biggest instant threat in the league!
I bet LA wish they could go back in time and give Buddle dp money. Still pretty impressive they are in first considering they have no forwards
Come on Chivas, we know you want him…
Any team picking up Angel would only need to pay for half of the DP salary. I think this is very doable. I could see a team in CCL add JPA for backup!
Soooooooooooooo F U N N Y!
SoC reference FTW!
One of my favorite players of all time to my favorite MLS team, so sweet. I love how the MLS is the landing place for aging superstars.
*Yawn* I am liking him more and more, but one goal does not a “big name star” make.
Los Angeles grew some super stars as well, albeit none with the pedigree that Shae kid has. One guy’s name is is Landon Donovan. Maybe you’ve heard of him. SoCal Born & Raised – and on the Galaxy roster.
For those who don’t currently play here: Team captain Carlos Bocanegra grew up but 15 minutes from Donovan.
And how about Robbie Rogers? Without him, that pass by the towhead would’ve been a “nice attempt.” He grew up here as well. Michael Orozco Fiscal… yeah, he grew up just on the other side of the 57/5 from Rogers.
I won’t even bother to mention the historical big names (Jones, Lewis) that grew up and played here locally as well. I’ve made my point.
Maybe he goes to a colombian team?
Agree. Thumbs up on this move. He brings a tenacious quality to the league. As for JPA – time to sip some cafe con leche and maybe put the cleats up.