The Spartaks Post
Market25 Jan 2027
Roberts Zjuzins hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Spartaks can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Alabi Adewale due for a Spartaks medical
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Noel Reit turns down Spartaks
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Maxim Elissen gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Maxim Elissen has just signed for Spartaks, and for once the answer mattered.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Spartaks rebuffed over Galin Grigorov
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ventspils have kept their man, and Spartaks go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Spartaks ask about Darius Cernych
A loan enquiry to Stumbras: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Market25 Jan 2027
A long bet from Spartaks on Maxim Elissen
He is 20, 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Maxim Elissen signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Maxim Elissen commits to Spartaks for another 3 years.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Spartaks
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Davis Zjuzins was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- The dugout Olegs Rugins has become a man the manager trusts
- Squad Competition arrives for Kristaps Vanins
- The dugout Vitalijs Laizans knocks on the manager’s door