After previous transfer missteps, LA Galaxy transformed team in summer window

It took Chicharito a year to shake the cobwebs out and become a productive MLS player, but he’s come good for the LA Galaxy over the last two years. Among the other Designated Players in 2022, it was far less rosy, as Kevin Cabral picked up a terminal case of the yips in year two, and Douglas Costa was a red card-acquiring shadow of his former self this year.

So while Greg Vanney has gradually put his fingerprints on this version of the Galaxy roster over time, the track record has been decidedly mixed. To be sure, all clubs have hits and misses, and there’s no team in the world that nails all of the signings exactly right.

But an institutional inability to build a coherent team, ever since…