The roster building for the upcoming 2025 season continues for LAFC. In what has already been a busy week for the club, they today announced yet another arrival. The club have signed versatile midfielder/defender Yaw Yeboah to a two-year contract that will see him with the club through 2026, along with an option for 2027. LAFC acquired Yeboah’s Right of First Refusal from San Diego FC in exchange for $50,000 in 2025 General Allocation Money (GAM) after San Diego selected Yeboah in Stage 2 of the 2024 MLS Re-Entry Draft. Yeboah will occupy an international slot on LAFC’s roster.
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“Yaw is a dynamic and versatile player with MLS experience and success with qualities that fit well with our team,” LAFC Co-President & General Manager John Thorrington said in a statement. “We are looking forward to welcoming Yaw and his family to L.A. and are confident he will help achieve our ongoing goal of winning trophies.”
The playmaker joins the Black & Gold after three successful seasons in Columbus, where he helped the Crew win the 2023 MLS Cup and the 2024 Leagues Cup, scoring the game-winning goal for Columbus against LAFC in the 2023 MLS Cup Final. Overall, Yeboah made 74 regular season appearances (42 starts) for Columbus, scoring four goals and registering 12 assists. Before moving to Columbus in 2022, Yeboah appeared in 50 matches with Wislaw Krakow (2020-22) of the Polish Ekstraklasa across all competitions, scoring 10 goals and registering five assists, while earning Ekstraklasa Player of the Month for August in 2021.
From 2018 to 2020, Yeboah appeared in 34 matches for Spanish La Liga2 side CD Numancia, scoring in his debut with the club. In 2019, was loaned to Celta de Vigo B, scoring five goals in 20 matches before moving to Wislaw Krakow. Yeboah is an excellent addition to a squad that likes to play with pace and push the ball up the pitch. He also fits the MLS experienced profile that the club seems to be focusing on at the moment. The only question now, is how will Head Coach Steve Cherundolo use the versatile player. Will we see him more in defense as a wingback, or will we see him more in the middle of the pitch? Given his goal scoring prowess, our early guess is on the latter.
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He has 5 goals in 3 seasons. What prowess? There’s definitely a place for a versatile runner in this squad but adding up all of these mid range players and projects (Holm) LAFC still haven’t replaced half the goal contributions of Bogusz. It’s going to be critical to get the best out of Ebobisse but I’m still unsure how he fits into this squad as anything other than a #2 or #1b striker to Giroud. Hoping for one more big signing with technical ability and creativity.