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Edition
The Skonto Gazette
19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
Vitalijs Fertovs is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Kristaps Savalnieks 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Skonto training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikita Fertovs is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
In brief
- Squad Zalli Abdullahi has settled at Skonto