The Daugavpils Gazette
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Daugavpils
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ceti Junior Tchibinda was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Armandas Raudonis 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 Daugavpils this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Mory Cissé gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad14 Sep 2026
8 new faces, and Daugavpils are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Market14 Sep 2026
Daugavpils buy the years ahead of Aliyu Umar Muhammad
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Squad14 Sep 2026
No place for Aliyu Umar Muhammad in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Daugavpils are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
In brief
- Market Talks stall between Daugavpils and Aliyu Umar Muhammad
- Market The market said no: Ervīns Piņaskins stays put