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The Skonto Gazette
19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad19 Oct 2026
The knee: Janis Oss out for 74 days
74 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Skonto
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Zilkifilu Rabiu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Janis Gabovs 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.
In brief
- Squad Skonto count the cost of losing a squad player
- Loan watch Eduards Oss wants to come home
- Market Vitalijs Gabovs linked with a move away
- The dugout Kristaps Savalnieks keeps his manager's vote