Nikita Vanins

Central Midfielder - Skonto
17 Oct 2026
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Marked for Nikita Vanins

11 Edition

The Skonto Gazette

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad12 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Skonto

Eduards Tarasovs 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.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Davis Kamess stays put

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

Squad12 Oct 2026

Words at Skonto training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikita Vanins 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.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Davis Kamess 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.

Loan watch12 Oct 2026

Igors Jurkovskis 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 5 say he has earned the hearing.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Davis Kamess has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Skonto will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Skonto Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market7 Sep 2026

Nikita Vanins asks to leave Skonto

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Skonto close the window on a squad of their own making

1 in and 5 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

Skonto bid $1.0M for Nikita Fertovs

The offer went to Spartaks this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

Too dear: Skonto walk away from Artūrs Karašausks

$34.0K was the most the club would pay and Liepaja were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Momodou Jobarteh 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.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

Skonto rebuffed over Shunsuke Murakami

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Daugavpils have kept their man, and Skonto go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A step back for Kaspars Ikaunieks at Skonto

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

The dugout7 Sep 2026

Kaspars Stolcers has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Skonto will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Momodou Jobarteh moves up the pecking order

Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Skonto than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.

In brief