Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer
13 May 2025
What is happening with the LA Galaxy? On Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard, the guys are joined by LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz to discuss the poor performance this season from the 2024 MLS Cup champions, the financial side of MLS and even gives an update on Riqui Puig’s rehab. The guys also discuss Minnesota’s win over Inter Miami, Liverpool fans booing Trent Alexander-Arnold, PSG knocking Arsenal out of the Champions League, and David Beckham’s comments about taking the captain’s armband during his time in LA. In the AT&T Mailbag, our hosts ponder your WHAT IF questions about the 2002 and 2014 World Cups, Landon’s time at Everton, and if Greg Vanney’s time at Landon’s old stomping grounds might be up! New episodes of Unfiltered Soccer with Landon and Tim drop every Tuesday. Subscribe to the show on YouTube and follow on all your favorite podcast platforms. For bonus content and to send your mailbag questions in to the show, follow on all social media platforms @UnfilteredSoccer. (https://www.unfilteredsoccer.com). Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard is presented by Volkswagen. Learn more at https://bit.ly/4g8bZG3. Thank you to our additional sponsors: AT&T. Connecting Changes Everything. Visit https://att.com/guarantee to learn more. Coors Light. Choose Chill. Get Coors Light delivered. Go to CoorsLight.com/USLNT NHTSA. Click It Or Ticket. http://www.nhtsa.gov/clickit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The LA Galaxy general manager, Will Koontz. The toughest thing about MLS is that the rules make it impossible to have deep rosters. If you lose a guy like Ricky Pooch, it's impossible to replace them. With a guy like Jovalich, in any other league in the world, a club like the Galaxy and where we sit relative to spend, it's like, you just, you just re-sign him.
Unfiltered Soccer with Landon and Tim, presented by Volkswagen. Volkswagen has long been a supporter of soccer in America and has proudly been a partner of U.S. Soccer for the past five years.
LD, my good man, I am super excited to be here. I got a beard trim yesterday, woke up at the crack of dawn two days in a row, covered a Premier League on NBC, which is amazing, and I get to come to you. I'm getting on a flight after this. And I'm heading to San Diego. Sunny San Diego.
God's country, baby. God's country.
That's what you say. And for people who don't know, with Unfiltered Soccer, we have lots of things we need to do. Content shoots, all the rest of it. And Landon oftentimes obliges and comes to New York City. So this time he gets his way and we're going to San Diego. So I can't wait to see you, bud.
Cannot wait to see you. My weekend was awesome. My dad came out to visit, watched all my kids play sports all weekend, flag football, soccer, baseball, all the things. Awesome weekend. I was exhausted. As you know, you wrote a book. Yes. I'm in the process of writing a book.
and it's almost done but just the editing part and reading it and then reading it again and deleting and every you want every word to be like perfect you know dude what a grind nobody tells you this you're like oh it's great i'll write a book and now i'm like this sucks dude dude it's it's a labor of love isn't it it's it has to be because i i remember i remember writing the book with ali benjamin who's my ghostwriter and i just i just remember thinking there's
I've buried some crap way down deep. I was like, I don't really want to bring this. It's arduous to have to relive some of that stuff.
And it's like, what do you put in? What do you don't? How deep do you want to go? And at the end, I was like, whatever, dude. Let's just throw it all in and we can cut it out. But now we're just...
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