The Skonto Gazette
Boardroom16 Nov 2026
Skonto lift the trophy
The season a town measures the next twenty against. The trophy comes home with the squad, and the route through the streets was agreed days ago.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The knee: Davis Kamess out for 91 days
91 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Skonto lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Gatis Kamess 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 Skonto this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Marcis Stolcers 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Eduards Ciganovs stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Eduards Ciganovs and Skonto agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
Raivis Vanins has seen enough of Metta/LU
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Skonto, and 0 appearances in 10 say he has earned the hearing.
In brief
- The dugout Marius Klimavicius gets picked when it counts
- The dugout Marcis Stolcers asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout The manager comes out for Samuel Segun