Grant Wahl has the scoop: SI.com has learned from from multiple sources that Beckham's contract allows him to walk away from the Galaxy after the '09 season, two years earlier than any previous reports had stated. Beckham does indeed have a five-year, $32.5 million contract with Major League Soccer (plus incentives and a percentage of jersey sales, [. Click to continue reading...

Ed seems to think that Beckham's apparent loan to Milan is part of his eventual exit from the Galaxy and MLS, saying: My gut feeling is that Beckham has already played his final game in MLS. The exit strategy has begun. Really? Maybe I was had, but I really thought that Beckham was sincere in his desire to [. Click to continue reading...

From a purely soccer perspective, and from the perspective of Beckham's ambition to keep playing for England, the loan to Milan makes a lot of sense. But, from the perspective of MLS and the Galaxy - how can you allow your meal ticket to risk getting hurt in a competition you see no profit out of. [. Click to continue reading...

I am going to go out on a limb here and say that Los Angeles' disasterous  season is not primarily Gullit's fault. So I wouldn't rank him as a coaching "bust."There isn't a coach in the league, if not the world, that could have done very much with that defense - not one. This mess is primarily [. Click to continue reading...

They're both gone: In a stunning, though not completely surprising turn of events at the Los Angeles Galaxy, both Ruud Gullit head coach and team president Alexi Lalas are looking for new jobs. The Galaxy fired Lalas on Monday, the same day Gullit resigned as head coach. Tom Payne takes over as the Galaxy's president while long-time [. Click to continue reading...

Ladies and gentlemen I come here today to admit an error. At the beginning of this season, I predicted that the Galaxy would be the "crisis club." That, with the exception of Xavier whine or two, has been proven incorrect. Instead the MLS team that is the least competent, least intelligent, and least classy has [. Click to continue reading...

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the first signs of discontent. We all chuckled when he spent half an hour at the MLS combine, announced that nobody there could play and then got on a plane and left the scouting and drafting to Panayotis, but the fact is that whether Gullit likes it or not, that's [. Click to continue reading...

Dave says: What do you mean "deserves?" He signed a contract, and one could even argue that he brought this upon himself by going to such a lousy, rudderless team. Does Beckham ever try to force Lalas out? Beckham has been around enough well-assembled teams to know what one should look like and that the Lalas-led Galaxy cannot possibly [. Click to continue reading...

Well, we've already gotten through the contenders, now how about teams so laughably bad that we wait with baited breath for matches with them just so that we can laugh. Strengths: Fans, Maurice Edu Weaknesses: Everything else Thoughts: Mo Johnston is quickly becoming the Isiah Thomas of MLS and that's a really, really bad thing. Click to continue reading...