Major League Soccer announced Thursday that a fourth sub will be available for 
teams during the upcoming postseason.
The extra sub will only be available if the game goes to extra time and may be used regardless of the number of subs a team makes during regulation.
Other competitions that have experimented with the fourth substitute include the FA Cup, Scottish Cup, FIFA Confederations Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup.
The rivalry between the Galaxy and LAFC will hit the field next year. Thursday, they were battling to upstage the other with big news.
First, came the Galaxy’s announcement that they had fired Curt Onalfo and hired Sigi Schmid.
Sigi Schmid’s first training session back at @StubHubCenter. pic.twitter.com/RwB9x11Uwt
— LA Galaxy (@LAGalaxy) July 27, 2017
By the time Schmid was leading the Galaxy through his first training session, LAFC dropped the news that they had hired their first coach and it is a familiar face and name in Bob Bradley.
The first coach in Club history.#WelcomeBob pic.twitter.com/V5xpFNzkd2
— LAFC (@LAFC) July 27, 2017
The Galaxy then ended the day with the official word that Johnathan dos Santos, Giovani’s brother, had signed with the club as the third Designated Player.
https://twitter.com/LAGalaxy/status/890766764933431296
what will tomorrow hold?
Major League Soccer announced the MLS All-Star Fan XI, Friday for the upcoming All-Star Game against Real Madrid, Aug. 2 at 5:30 p.m. at Soldier Field.
The roster will consist of 24 players. The remaining players, consisting of two Commissioner picks and 11 players selected by coach Veljko Paunovic will be announced later this month.
Goalkeeper:Tim Howard (Colorado Rapids)
Defenders:Greg Garza (Atlanta United), Graham Zusi (Sporting Kansas City),DaMarcus Beasley (Houston Dynamo)
Midfielders:Bastian Schweinsteiger (Chicago Fire), Miguel Almirón (Atlanta United), Kaká (Orlando City SC), Michael Bradley(Toronto FC)
Forwards: David Villa (New York City FC), Nemanja Nikolić (Chicago Fire), Sebastian Giovinco (Toronto FC)
Mexican international Andres Guardado was announced Friday as a new member of Real Betis after spending the last three seasons with PSV of the Eredivisie.
Guardado, 30, signed a three-year contract.
It was reported a few weeks ago that Guardado was nearing a deal with Los Angeles Football Club for the 2018 season. At the time, Guardado pushed back against the report while Mexico was playing in the Confederations Cup, saying that there have been offers from MLS clubs, but denied that any agreement had been set.
Guardado has already spent seven seasons in Spain, with Deportivo La Coruna and Valencia
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Galaxy defender Nathan Smith could be hearing from the MLS Disciplinary Committee next week.
Smith received a yellow card for the foul here on Benny Feilhaber. Feilhaber had to be subbed off. Does this play warrant a suspension?
That’s a by-the-book red card. Terrible missed tackle that *could*/could've injure/d Feilhaber for the long-term. #SportingKC pic.twitter.com/WmsBzGbQSl
— Tate Steinlage (@SteinlageT) June 25, 2017
For the third consecutive game, the Galaxy went on the road and scored another road victory.
Saturday night, thanks to a pair of goals from Giovani dos Santos the Galaxy took down in-state rivals San Jose, 4-2 in the latest edition of the Cali Clasico.
The Galaxy improved to 5-5-2, now with 17 points, moving them into sixth place in the Western Conference. The victory also gave the Galaxy their fourth on the road, tying their total of road victories from last year.
Galaxy coach Curt Onalfo: “Nothing phases us. We’ve dealt with a lot of adversity early on and that’s made us a better group and a better team. I like how we grew as the game progressed because obviously I was a little concerned that we conceded twice in the first half, I think we just locked it up and had a very good second half.”
What’s next: The Galaxy conclude a stretch of four consecutive road games, June 3 at D.C. United.
This #CaliClasico sure was w i l d. #SJvLA pic.twitter.com/Gej5whzg5f
— LA Galaxy (@LAGalaxy) May 28, 2017
Fresh of their first victory on the East Coast since 2013, the Galaxy will look to carry that momentum into Sunday’s contest against expansion side Minnesota United.
The Galaxy (3-5-2) defeated the New York Red Bulls, 3-1, Sunday, thanks to two goals from Romain Alessandrini and Giovani dos Santos’ penalty kick.
Sunday, the Galaxy is back on the road against Minnesota (3-6-2) at TCF Bank Stadium. Both teams are sitting on 11 points.
Christian Ramirez leads the club with six goals. Kevin Molino has five. 
Minnesota lost three of their first four games, allowing a whopping 18 goals. Since then, things have stabilized a bit. Still, their propensity for allowing goals should brighten the eyes of the Galaxy attackers. Minnesota has allowed 28 goals so far this season.
“It is a tough venue,” Onalfo said of TCF Bank Stadium. “Turf field. It’s narrow and they haven’t conceded a lot of home, so we’re going to have to have that road mentality, push the game and do whatever we can to mimic what we did last week.”
Brazilian and Orlando City SC midfielder Kaka is the highest paid player in Major League Soccer this year, according to information released by the MLS Players Union.
KaKa is set to earn a base salary of $6.66 million with a guaranteed compensation of $7.16 million.
Toronto FC’s Sebastian Giovinco is the second highest paid, earning a base of $5.6 million and guaranteed of $7.12 million.
Toronto FC’s Michael Bradley ($6.5 million), New York City FC’s Andrea Pirlo ($5.9 million) and David Villa ($5.6 million) round out the top five
The Galaxy’s Giovani dos Santos is sixth with a guaranteed compensation of $5.5 million.
A total of 12 groups haves ubmitted official applications for the next round of MLS expansion
After reviewing expansion applications and meeting with each ownership group, Major League Soccer will announce the four expansion teams in groups of two based on the following timeline:
**Two new expansion teams before the end of 2017. Teams 25 and 26 will begin play in MLS by the 2020 season.
**Two additional expansion teams will be announced at a later date. The timeline for selecting clubs 27 and 28 will be decided later this year.
Here are the 12 cities applying for expansion:
Charlotte
Cincinnati
Detroit
Indianapolis
Nashville
Phoenix
Raleigh/Durham
Sacramento
St. Louis
San Antonio
San Diego
Tampa/St. Petersburg
From MLS: With the addition of Atlanta United and Minnesota United FC, MLS will have 22 clubs playing during the 2017 season. In addition, Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC) will join the League in 2018. Also, MLS is making progress with plans for an expansion team in Miami, which would bring MLS to 24 clubs. In December of 2015, MLS announced plans to grow to 28 teams.
Targeted Allocation Money or TAM will increase to $1.2 million for each team, MLS commissioner Don Garber confirmed at a press conference in Toronto, Friday.
Last year, teams were given $800,000. The increase will give teams a bit more flexib3ility on the league’s $3.6 million cap.
TAM is designed to help teams attract top talent outside of the three Designated Player spots.