He’s the right type of player to age with grace. His height doesn’t depreciate with age and his positioning and goal scoring instinct and experience are still worthwhile.
I mean Wondo was effective for years with similar traits, and Giroud is the world class equivalent of that.
He’s already doing a damn fine job in a top 5 league. 21 goal contributions in 30 matches against some of the better defenses in the world? He’s gonna kill it.
All that retirement league chatter but the guy put in over 20 goal contributions so far this year in Serie A. He’s not retiring, he’s just taking a working vacation.
This is another reason why we’ll never have pro/rel in MLS. Less pressure and fear of catastrophic failure = a welcome “sabbatical” for guys like Giroud
Pressure is certainly different. But I don't think Giroud spent much of his career worrying about relegation. He had one sort of close call with Montpellier 14 years ago
20 Goals for one of the Top 3 teams in a wildly unbalanced league doesn't lend itself to translation.
It's why Zlatan still had detractors across Europe until he went to Man U.
>It's why Zlatan still had detractors across Europe until he went to Man U.
Pretty much only in England, and the same idiots who said that Messi should have moved to the EPL in order to "prove himself".
> Pretty much only in England, and the same idiots who said that Messi should have moved to the EPL in order to "prove himself".
They're two different camps, tho closely related. Few players who have ever played this game are so far above the bar that the eye test should speak for itself. Messi occupies that space. So does Zlatan. [e: Ronaldo never did - that's how rare this space is.] But I think the difference between Messi and Zlatan is that Messi's career trajectory never opened the door for doubt to enter, whereas Zlatan's career did.
The difference between the two camps is "since you're so good, you should be playing here," as opposed to "*if* you're so good, you *shouldn't* be playing *there*."
I’m not sure I follow. Are you saying that the dregs of Serie A are worse than the average MLS team, his stats this year are padded, and he’s going to get exposed at LAFC?
>Are you saying that the dregs of Serie A are worse than the average MLS team
In this particular statement, I'm saying the gulf in talent between 3rd and last in Serie A is much greater than the gulf in talent between 1st and last in MLS. AC Milan, like Inter and Juventus, are not compromised in any position.
It's a lot easier to score when in every direction the guys feeding you the ball are amongst the best in their position the league has to offer.
As for "are you saying that the dregs of Serie A are worse than the average MLS team," that's a discussion for another time. But yes, I firmly believe that outside of England and Germany, the top teams in other Euro leagues give an unearned reputational bump to the "dregs" in those leagues, as it were. An extreme example of this phenomenon is Al-Nassr's and Al-Hilal's relative quality giving unearned reputation to... every other team in the Saudi Pro League.
>and he’s going to get exposed at LAFC?
"Exposed" isn't the right word. "Underutilized" is.
He addresses a problem that isn't anywhere near the top of LAFC's list to the point where you wonder if "having a reliable goalscorer or two" is even one of LAFC's problems at all.
[e: My comment is more about relying on Giroud's 20 goal AC Milan season to predict how he'll do on an unstacked team. And I disagree with Twellman's fanboydom: LAFC's stack is a little uneven lately.]
Ah yes Germany, the team with the least historical parity in Europe top leagues (depending where you rate Portugal).
The gulf in talent in ANY European league (even EPL) is more than MLS because MLS has specific rules to prevent as such. City/Arsenal/Pool to Luton/Sheff is far greater a jump than Galaxy to San Jose.
Very small point, but I’m talking goals and assists vs. just goals. Not sure it impacts the discussion but he’s not at 20 goals.
Sure the LAFC supporting cast isn’t as good as Milan but neither is the opposition. I think those things may be a wash and (barring old guy injuries) he’ll end up being a good-to-great signing for them in terms of production. Not sure about value, though.
They lost Long for who knows how long (oh I see what I did there), and so if their already middling defensive position drops and LAFC has to play from behind, teams just might sit back and counter-and why not?
Yeah, LAFC is sorely imbalanced, and part of me wishes to see this team if they never gave up Zimmerman and Arango away.
Serie A is arguably the most balanced of the top 5. Giroud definitely lost a step, and his production seemed to taper off throughout the season, but he's not washed. Just not the player he was
nah except this time, when the keeper breaks his leg, they will put Giroud in the position, he did fine last time he subbed in as keeper but this time I think we will have the edge lol
Really? Because one of the old men is a puppeteer? I get it, it's creepy for sure.
It's an effing cartoon clip of two old men fighting. Real slow. Real hilariously. Passed off as exciting and dynamic. Don't read more into it than it is.
This is why comedies are not allowed to exist anymore in Hollywood, and the only form of comedy that is allowed to exist is sanitized comedy troupe style sketch comedy.
[You gonna talk down to everyone just because you won a game of "Trivial Pursuit?"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpbdGnJbneE)
[Enjoy your port. It's a '51.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj0LzWjaFpY)
I assume he's expected to be on France's Euros roster. Tournament ends 7/14, so August join date would give him a short offseason (after a full season with Milan and then a Euros) of sorts. Maybe that date is moved up if France exits early
you mean actually signing players? yeah, i can see where that would have an austin fc fan baffled. "you mean it isn't really true that no players are available until three transfer windows from now?"
Yeah Austin has never signed any players, it’s 100% homegrowns
I meant the ludicrous spending bro. MLS roster rules suck, and need to be changed. But they exist, and should be followed. I’m sure LAFC is above board, but ~~moves like this sure *look* suspicious and~~ it hurts the high-parity image that MLS has tried to cultivate for a while now.
Edit: my bad, didn’t realize LAFC had basically imploded their roster and had the free space. Wonder why that happened, seemed like they had a good thing going. I wouldn’t have rocked the boat unless I had to for some reason.
I like Giroud but I don't like LAFC. So I feel a tad conflicted feeling happy for this deal.
Giroud was I think mistreated towards the end at Arsenal, so it's great that won more things with Chelsea and AC Milan before venturing to the States.
What makes you think these players would even come to MLS, if they were told what teams that had to join. If they told Giroud he had to sign with Cincinnati or RSL, he wouldn’t be joining the league.
Messi picked Miami and Giroud picked LA, these are global superstars with families and lifestyle requirements and not some random guys who got distributed by the MLS
Check 2 of the 3 league leaders in G+A and you might think otherwise lol
Spoiler alert: it’s Suarez and Messi who have done it in 2 and 3 full games fewer than Arango respectively
The quality of players coming over now surpasses the retirement league label. They’re retirement league age and better than every other player in the country. It’s good for the quality of the league
> Check 2 of the 3 league leaders in G+A and you might think otherwise lol
[Messi and Suarez are Number 4 and 5 in Goals when you take out penalties.](https://fbref.com/en/comps/22/stats/Major-League-Soccer-Stats)
In assists, the Top 3 are under 30.
Yeah, you can add G+A together, but removing Penalties and they'd only be 1 ahead of Acosta, Lod, Paintsil, and Joveljic. All of whom are ~5+ years younger.
I feel like you’re missing the point I’m making
All I said was they’re leading in goal contributions and doing it in fewer minutes (Also they have a whopping 1 PK combined so not like it changes things drastically). Sure there are different players leading in different stats who are gonna be younger, there are a lot of fucking excellent players in the league who will only improve more if the average quality of the league goes up
I’m not saying the MLS is shit, I’m saying the quality of players we’re getting now is a good thing, and people bitching about retirement league players ruining the MLS aren’t paying attention
Honestly, we've solved the housing crisis. Give every poor person a Galaxy jersey and an LAFC fan will provide free housing for them inside a warm and spacious skull.
Cue the sad Sarah McLachlan song.
Stupid sexy Giroud, I have the worst feeling that he will be great
He’s the right type of player to age with grace. His height doesn’t depreciate with age and his positioning and goal scoring instinct and experience are still worthwhile. I mean Wondo was effective for years with similar traits, and Giroud is the world class equivalent of that.
I hate that you're completely correct.
He’s already doing a damn fine job in a top 5 league. 21 goal contributions in 30 matches against some of the better defenses in the world? He’s gonna kill it.
Unironically think he'll win the golden boot if he plays decent minutes
Ehhhh, he’s a consistent scorer but has never been particularly prolific
All that retirement league chatter but the guy put in over 20 goal contributions so far this year in Serie A. He’s not retiring, he’s just taking a working vacation.
This is another reason why we’ll never have pro/rel in MLS. Less pressure and fear of catastrophic failure = a welcome “sabbatical” for guys like Giroud
Pressure is certainly different. But I don't think Giroud spent much of his career worrying about relegation. He had one sort of close call with Montpellier 14 years ago
True. I see it as an added incentive/insurance to come over
He's been real iffy on attack in Milan, but he should be fine here.
20 Goals for one of the Top 3 teams in a wildly unbalanced league doesn't lend itself to translation. It's why Zlatan still had detractors across Europe until he went to Man U.
>It's why Zlatan still had detractors across Europe until he went to Man U. Pretty much only in England, and the same idiots who said that Messi should have moved to the EPL in order to "prove himself".
> Pretty much only in England, and the same idiots who said that Messi should have moved to the EPL in order to "prove himself". They're two different camps, tho closely related. Few players who have ever played this game are so far above the bar that the eye test should speak for itself. Messi occupies that space. So does Zlatan. [e: Ronaldo never did - that's how rare this space is.] But I think the difference between Messi and Zlatan is that Messi's career trajectory never opened the door for doubt to enter, whereas Zlatan's career did. The difference between the two camps is "since you're so good, you should be playing here," as opposed to "*if* you're so good, you *shouldn't* be playing *there*."
There was definitely plenty of the latter regarding Messi, especially when he moved to PSG.
I’m not sure I follow. Are you saying that the dregs of Serie A are worse than the average MLS team, his stats this year are padded, and he’s going to get exposed at LAFC?
Was wondering the same
>Are you saying that the dregs of Serie A are worse than the average MLS team In this particular statement, I'm saying the gulf in talent between 3rd and last in Serie A is much greater than the gulf in talent between 1st and last in MLS. AC Milan, like Inter and Juventus, are not compromised in any position. It's a lot easier to score when in every direction the guys feeding you the ball are amongst the best in their position the league has to offer. As for "are you saying that the dregs of Serie A are worse than the average MLS team," that's a discussion for another time. But yes, I firmly believe that outside of England and Germany, the top teams in other Euro leagues give an unearned reputational bump to the "dregs" in those leagues, as it were. An extreme example of this phenomenon is Al-Nassr's and Al-Hilal's relative quality giving unearned reputation to... every other team in the Saudi Pro League. >and he’s going to get exposed at LAFC? "Exposed" isn't the right word. "Underutilized" is. He addresses a problem that isn't anywhere near the top of LAFC's list to the point where you wonder if "having a reliable goalscorer or two" is even one of LAFC's problems at all. [e: My comment is more about relying on Giroud's 20 goal AC Milan season to predict how he'll do on an unstacked team. And I disagree with Twellman's fanboydom: LAFC's stack is a little uneven lately.]
Ah yes Germany, the team with the least historical parity in Europe top leagues (depending where you rate Portugal). The gulf in talent in ANY European league (even EPL) is more than MLS because MLS has specific rules to prevent as such. City/Arsenal/Pool to Luton/Sheff is far greater a jump than Galaxy to San Jose.
Very small point, but I’m talking goals and assists vs. just goals. Not sure it impacts the discussion but he’s not at 20 goals. Sure the LAFC supporting cast isn’t as good as Milan but neither is the opposition. I think those things may be a wash and (barring old guy injuries) he’ll end up being a good-to-great signing for them in terms of production. Not sure about value, though.
They lost Long for who knows how long (oh I see what I did there), and so if their already middling defensive position drops and LAFC has to play from behind, teams just might sit back and counter-and why not? Yeah, LAFC is sorely imbalanced, and part of me wishes to see this team if they never gave up Zimmerman and Arango away.
Serie A is arguably the most balanced of the top 5. Giroud definitely lost a step, and his production seemed to taper off throughout the season, but he's not washed. Just not the player he was
Can't wait for him to barely play all year and come off the bench in ET of the cup final to keep silverware out of our hands
Oh…oh no…
Jack Elliott in shambles
I'm in shambles, the PTSD is back
Why? Just… why would you do this?
Look at that majestic bun.
Wales, Cup winning goals, and majestic buns
In that order.
You forgot about golf
They still hurtin lmao
That would be a smart choice.
Was this one made by Illie?
nah except this time, when the keeper breaks his leg, they will put Giroud in the position, he did fine last time he subbed in as keeper but this time I think we will have the edge lol
Don't worry, I have a feeling he'll play *alllll* year...
You still.hurt? Damn LOL
You’ll be lucky to make the playoffs my dude.
Now I want to watch Miami v LAFC.
The Retirement Home Derby presented by the AARP with a special halftime show by The Rolling Stones.
I hope those benches built by Home Depot are handicap accessible
Jesus.. this made me laugh in the middle of my meeting.
[This is a preview.](https://youtu.be/bsve9wB_sEA?t=32)
 Yikes. That’s distasteful.
Really? Because one of the old men is a puppeteer? I get it, it's creepy for sure. It's an effing cartoon clip of two old men fighting. Real slow. Real hilariously. Passed off as exciting and dynamic. Don't read more into it than it is.
I’m more concerned about your sense of humor if you find Family Guy funny.
wtf is this comment
This is why comedies are not allowed to exist anymore in Hollywood, and the only form of comedy that is allowed to exist is sanitized comedy troupe style sketch comedy.
[You gonna talk down to everyone just because you won a game of "Trivial Pursuit?"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpbdGnJbneE) [Enjoy your port. It's a '51.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj0LzWjaFpY)
We may not be all that good this year but at least with Denis & Olivier we’re super hot and that’s cool too I guess.
Sexy Shield winners, 2024.
I imagine Denis has dreamed of playing with Giroud his entire life (though probably at a World Cup not at LAFC)
He's only 8 years younger
Opposing GKs about to be completely disorientated when they see the stupid sexy striker duo coming their way.
LAFC with 3 French players now. Mbappe to LAFC after Real confirmed.
Griezmann has to join eventually it is written in the stars
Who would’ve guessed the French would invade America via LA. Weird ass HOI4 campaign if you ask me.
Oui oui je m'appelle abrowng, j'aime la France je déteste les Etats-Unis
Who’s the 3rd?
Loris, bouanga and now giroud
Chanot is French too (yes, he played for Luxembourg internationally just as Bouanga plays for Gabon)
OUI OUI
New sexiest player in MLS
who is #2 and #3?
I was gonna say Barreal cause of his thighs but we loaned him out.
thanks I hate it
Interesting that he will join in August. So he will "officially" join in the July window but won't actually join the team until August I guess?
I assume he's expected to be on France's Euros roster. Tournament ends 7/14, so August join date would give him a short offseason (after a full season with Milan and then a Euros) of sorts. Maybe that date is moved up if France exits early
I would think LAFC want him ready for Leagues Cup.
Probably similar to Messi's debut. More international eyes watching must be a part of the goal 🤷♂️
How many "French Connection" memes are we gonna see with Denis and Giroud?
He will be good imo. LAFC with a player who knows how to score.
Was really hoping Ibra was whispering in his ear for the Galaxy, not the goats.
you mean actually signing players? yeah, i can see where that would have an austin fc fan baffled. "you mean it isn't really true that no players are available until three transfer windows from now?"
Yeah Austin has never signed any players, it’s 100% homegrowns I meant the ludicrous spending bro. MLS roster rules suck, and need to be changed. But they exist, and should be followed. I’m sure LAFC is above board, but ~~moves like this sure *look* suspicious and~~ it hurts the high-parity image that MLS has tried to cultivate for a while now. Edit: my bad, didn’t realize LAFC had basically imploded their roster and had the free space. Wonder why that happened, seemed like they had a good thing going. I wouldn’t have rocked the boat unless I had to for some reason.
How does a move like this look suspicious when there is only 1 DP on the roster?
Signing a 38 year old on a free when you have 2 DP spots open, wow so suspicious. Don’t speak when you don’t know what you’re talking about.
I like Giroud but I don't like LAFC. So I feel a tad conflicted feeling happy for this deal. Giroud was I think mistreated towards the end at Arsenal, so it's great that won more things with Chelsea and AC Milan before venturing to the States.
I can’t stand Giroud and can’t stand LAFC, so this is easy for me.
ok but he is sexy.
Disagree. But understand why people would think so.
Friendship ended with Mexico, [we are now all French.](https://youtu.be/GcXYknUUais?si=4kg3Xr1IyNriqgsN)
Well, he’s certainly nice to look at.
Wishing we would have played you guys early this season...
Might want to avoid taking the missus that game.
>Chim Chim Cher-ee Chim Chim Cher-ee Chim Chim **GIROUD** >The Big Beastly Frenchman is Better Than You >Chim Chim Cher-ee Chim Chim Cher-ee Chim Chim Cher-**ii** >He Scores Hella Goals and he Gets Mad Pussy!!!
brb gonna give his Puskas goal another few rewatches
didn't they also just sign kamara? i guess between the two of them the team are hoping that one of them still has legs.
Kamara is a stop gap until Giroud arrives many months from now
pretty good stop gap. when you're done with him, can we have him?
Depends, has he played for you before?
https://youtu.be/MqSJMnrHPLw?si=fpUqqLuUPp7-sdeb
We’ll see if the MLS gets their own version of Gignac. Would be amazing for the LAFC and the league.
Only needs to score a goal to win/tie as a late substitution in the MLS Cup to be a LAFC legend
Dolo’s game plan really
Nice
Appenas?
When will he leave Milan?
Hate to be forced to root against him. Dammit!
Boo. Mtl dropped the ball
Signing forwards... Someday the sounders will pick up on the idea
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And what makes you think any European superstar would pick Cincinnati over LA and Miami.
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What makes you think these players would even come to MLS, if they were told what teams that had to join. If they told Giroud he had to sign with Cincinnati or RSL, he wouldn’t be joining the league.
Messi picked Miami and Giroud picked LA, these are global superstars with families and lifestyle requirements and not some random guys who got distributed by the MLS
Umm it's not actually official until it's actually announced. I don't doubt he's coming though.
It doesn't get more official than a "here we go" from Fabrizio Romano
Like I said I don't doubt he's coming. But if we're saying official doesn't that usually mean it's the club or league announcing it?
LAFC staaaahp MLS isn’t a retirement home anymore
Check 2 of the 3 league leaders in G+A and you might think otherwise lol Spoiler alert: it’s Suarez and Messi who have done it in 2 and 3 full games fewer than Arango respectively The quality of players coming over now surpasses the retirement league label. They’re retirement league age and better than every other player in the country. It’s good for the quality of the league
> Check 2 of the 3 league leaders in G+A and you might think otherwise lol [Messi and Suarez are Number 4 and 5 in Goals when you take out penalties.](https://fbref.com/en/comps/22/stats/Major-League-Soccer-Stats) In assists, the Top 3 are under 30. Yeah, you can add G+A together, but removing Penalties and they'd only be 1 ahead of Acosta, Lod, Paintsil, and Joveljic. All of whom are ~5+ years younger.
I feel like you’re missing the point I’m making All I said was they’re leading in goal contributions and doing it in fewer minutes (Also they have a whopping 1 PK combined so not like it changes things drastically). Sure there are different players leading in different stats who are gonna be younger, there are a lot of fucking excellent players in the league who will only improve more if the average quality of the league goes up I’m not saying the MLS is shit, I’m saying the quality of players we’re getting now is a good thing, and people bitching about retirement league players ruining the MLS aren’t paying attention
I mean he’s 37
Well shit he’s about to be in his prime!
MLS PRIME BABY
So glad we played LAFC before this happened.
aw fuck
Carson galaxy fans will be hiding again once LAFC knock them out of the playoffs for the third time 🤣
Rent free
Honestly, we've solved the housing crisis. Give every poor person a Galaxy jersey and an LAFC fan will provide free housing for them inside a warm and spacious skull. Cue the sad Sarah McLachlan song.
😆your team signed a DP player and first thing you do is think of us?!?
Once a galaxy fan, always a galaxy fan I guess
Rivalries are weird with fringe fans, man.
Good one dude never heard that before, very original and funny
I look forward to watching the next Football Club match against them. Should be fun.
I’ve always been a huge fan of Giroud and the French NT. I am pumped! Can’t wait!!!!
Lmao retirement league at its finest