Rohat Matyar

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47 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match21 Jun 2027

Ventspils refuse to drop out of the race

Position 2, 23 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Transfer targets21 Jun 2027

Mmesoma Umejiego due for a Ventspils medical

Everything agreed with Apolonia Fier, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad21 Jun 2027

Zak Baker is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad21 Jun 2027

Words exchanged at Ventspils

Reinis Reinholds and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Transfer targets21 Jun 2027

Ludogorets tell Ventspils: Alberto Salido 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.

Transfer targets21 Jun 2027

Ventspils try to borrow Faiz Mattoir

Septemvri 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.

The dugout21 Jun 2027

No hiding place for Emmanuel Chukwunyere

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Emmanuel Chukwunyere, and the manager let it.

Loan watch21 Jun 2027

8 clean sheets on loan for Galin Grigorov

14 appearances at Nomme Kalju and the goals have stopped going in. Ventspils lent out a goalkeeper and are watching somebody else’s season get better every week.

Squad21 Jun 2027

John Shalom Benneth: “I am not a substitute”

“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Ventspils will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.

In brief

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44 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match29 May 2027

Ventspils tear Daugavpils apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Daugavpils, and it could have been more.

Squad31 May 2027

Tempers go at Ventspils

Mihkel Ainsalu 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 May 2027

Suleiman Abdullahi 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.

The terraces31 May 2027

One of their own: Eduards Savalnieks

He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Player ratings31 May 2027

Suleiman Abdullahi in the eights

A performance of 8.06 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings31 May 2027

One of those days for Kelvin Leku

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.02, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings31 May 2027

Eduards Savalnieks in the eights

A performance of 8.01 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad31 May 2027

Rohat Matyar stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Rohat Matyar and Ventspils agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout31 May 2027

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Roberts Gabovs kept it short after the 3‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

In brief