Marked for Gatis Zjuzins
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market14 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Metta/LU, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Skonto have kept their man, and Metta/LU go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Metta/LU training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gianluca Scremin 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Metta/LU
Gatis Zjuzins and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market14 Sep 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Gatis Jagodinskis is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market14 Sep 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Eduards Tarasovs has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market31 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Metta/LU, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Mahamud Abdul Karimu 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad31 Aug 2026
4 Metta/LU players away with their countries
The training ground goes quiet for a fortnight. 4 men have gone off to be somebody else’s players, and the manager is left with the ones nobody has called.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Metta/LU
6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Metta/LU training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Davis Bulvitis 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market24 Aug 2026
Jelgava say no — this time
The offer from Ventspils for Davis Tarasovs was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market24 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Jelgava, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Spartaks wanted more than $2.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Jelgava asked and Flora said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Jelgava training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Eduards Cauna 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of Gatis Zjuzins has come up in conversations Jelgava were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Jelgava
Rodolphe Ekou and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market24 Aug 2026
The Gatis Zjuzins conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Metta/LU will make the call about Gatis Zjuzins this week. Jelgava have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market24 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Metta/LU, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Metta/LU have done the hard part with Jelgava, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Metta/LU
Mahamud Abdul Karimu and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Metta/LU
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gianluca Scremin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Spartaks: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Arturs Rugins and Metta/LU agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad24 Aug 2026
No place for Davis Rugins in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Metta/LU are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Roberts Ikaunieks, and the manager let it.