The Spartaks Post
Squad31 Aug 2026
The knee: Aleksandrs Tarasovs out for 138 days
138 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Spartaks lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market31 Aug 2026
SKA Khabarovsk come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Spartaks did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market31 Aug 2026
Igors Ciganovs asks to leave Spartaks
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Rodrigo Marina will not be coming to Spartaks
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Sabadell is saying, and nobody at Spartaks is enjoying the guessing.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Spartaks
Eduards Ikaunieks was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Raivis Cauna out for 20 days
The medical room confirms 20 days on the sidelines for Raivis Cauna, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Spartaks rebuffed over Iļja Korotkovs
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Liepaja have kept their man, and Spartaks go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Spartaks try to borrow Kryštof Lichtenberg
Teplice have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Market31 Aug 2026
A long bet from Spartaks on Cristopher Lahe
He is 18, and nobody at Spartaks signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
In brief
- The dugout Alvis Jagodinskis gets picked when it counts
- Squad Eduards Ikaunieks has company in his position
- Market Still no ink between Spartaks and Cristopher Lahe