Mas y Mas Gio

More leftover quotes on Gio/Galaxy. 

Head coach Bruce Arena

Players are getting better. We’ve had a long year. We’ve had a lot of injuries and absences for periods of time. For the most part, we’re over the hump and hopefully, we can get our team healthy and ready for the last nine season games and hopefully for the playoffs.

--Injuries?

We’ll see. Baggio should be back soon.

--Expectations? 

Not at all. We have to step on the field and play well each and every game and try to win. All that other stuff is all garbage and hype. We don’t talk about championships yet.

--Supporters' Shield?

It’d be nice to have. The way the league is made up right now, with the regular season schedule, it’s hard, because too many teams play without their players for so many games. The Supporters’ Shield is an awkward goal to have, given that a number of teams play without their players for long periods of time. So it makes that difficult.

--Robbie Rogers Achilles heel issue?

Every player has injuries and deals with it differently. He’s playing 90 minutes now.

--Dallas?

They’re a good team. I haven’t watched them that closely, but Castillo continues to be dangerous player. Diaz is good. Perez has been outstanding goalscorer. Defensively, they’re pretty solid. They’re a good team.

We’ve seen the weather before. We had weather the other day, so it’s not an excuse. Still weather.

--Gio adjustment? There’s been no issues to date. Like any player, they’ll be some ups and downs along the way, but he’s doing very well.

.@OficialGio marked his @MLS debut with a goal and an assist. Recap: http://t.co/s5Kz6lPso6 #LAvSEA pic.twitter.com/6DFcHV4lx3

— LA Galaxy (@LAGalaxy) August 9, 2015

Klein post-game

After talking to Greg Vanney in a nearly-empty (in terms of reporters) Galaxy locker room, I waited for Chris Klein to get ready. He was getting treatment or something before getting showered and dressed. After he was ready to talk, I got first dibs on a conversation. About halfway through our chat, or maybe even a few minutes in, the mass hordes of reporters crowded around us. Apparently, they were informed in the presser that Landon Donovan would be made available in the locker room instead of the press conference. So that's why there are some repeated questions there.

Here's about eight minutes or so of Chris Klein.

For all you Chris Klein fans

The Galaxy right back will be on Fox 11 news tonight on the "Wednesday's Child" segment which aims to find LA-area foster children a permanent home.

Anyway, just wanted to pass that along if you're flipping the channels around tonight and need something to watch.

New Galaxy go-to guy?

No Joe Cannon. No Chris Albright.

We're left with Peter Vagenas and Chris Klein as the best options to get a sound bite from. I should say too that Landon Donovan is always good to talk to if he's around, of course.

I didn't see Pete on Monday (I got to the Galaxy training a little late). Chris Klein was around, so I said hey and chatted with him for a few minutes. Audio of it here.