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On the field, however, the reunion hasn’t exactly jelled with the Quakes, who open their regular season Feb. 22 against Real Salt Lake, going winless against MLS competition in the preseason.

“The more pieces you add to a team, the harder it is. The fact that you can do a complete squad transformation and get everyone to jell, it’s very rare.”

Spencer Rattler isn’t likely to roll into Los Angeles and beat the Chargers, who are slowly starting to jell as a team under Jim Harbaugh.

The reality they are facing, however, is that there is no substitute for learning to jell together.

“Pre-COVID, it was really jelling,” he said of the financial district.