The Jelgava Sentinel
Market13 Sep 2027
Alvis Oss has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Jelgava they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Real improvement from Kaspars Ikaunieks at Jelgava
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Kaspars Ikaunieks is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Tempers go at Jelgava
Aleksei Dubrovin 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Words at Jelgava training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrius Novikovas 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 dugout13 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Roberts Savalnieks
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout13 Sep 2027
When it matters, Roberts Savalnieks plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout13 Sep 2027
Ignas Novikovas knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Jelgava, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Nerves in the Jelgava squad
Aleksei Dubrovin has been around long enough to know what the spring feels like when it goes wrong, and he can feel it. A dressing room that is frightened plays like one.
Market13 Sep 2027
a squad player leaves for nothing
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. a squad player leaves Jelgava the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
In brief
- Market Eduards Oss leaves for nothing
- Market The window shut and Nikita Cauna is still in the building
- The dugout Alvis Oss keeps his manager's vote