The Metta/LU Gazette
Squad3 Aug 2026
Daniils Ulimbaševs signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Daniils Ulimbaševs and Metta/LU agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Marko Pavlovski 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Serhii Miakushko falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad3 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Reinis Reinholds
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Metta/LU will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months and counting on Mahamud Abdul Karimu
Still no offer on the table, and Mahamud Abdul Karimu’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Market3 Aug 2026
Ralfs Pakulis is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Metta/LU has been clear about where Ralfs Pakulis stands, which is more than many ever get.
In brief
- Market Shaxzod Shaymanov brings the grey hairs Metta/LU lacked
- Market Serhii Miakushko brings the grey hairs Metta/LU lacked