The Metta/LU Gazette
Squad11 Jan 2027
The knee: Daniils Ulimbaševs out for 25 days
25 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Metta/LU lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Mohamed Bai Kamara out for 22 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Metta/LU will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Metta/LU agree $41.0K for Vitalijs Tarasovs
The clubs have shaken hands with Jelgava; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Failed medical for Pavels Laizans
The deal with Spartaks died in the treatment room. Nobody will say what was found and everybody in the game will find out by Friday.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Noel Reit signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Noel Reit commits to Metta/LU for another 3 years.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Samuel Biek in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Metta/LU this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Spartaks tell Metta/LU: Aleksandrs Zjuzins is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Mohamed Bai Kamara
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market11 Jan 2027
Metta/LU and Noel Reit are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
In brief
- Market A long bet from Metta/LU on Samuel Chijioke
- The dugout Samuel Biek knocks on the manager’s door
- Market Metta/LU shop where it costs nothing