The Spartaks Post
Squad14 Sep 2026
Eduards Fertovs breaks a bone — 64 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 64 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Jelgava tell Spartaks: Nikita Kamess is not for sale
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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Spartaks
Aleksandrs Ciganovs and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Spartaks count the cost of losing Raivis Savalnieks
25 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Spartaks
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alvis Jurkovskis was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Kaspars Vanins gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Kaspars Vanins is on it.
In brief
- Market The window shut and Aleksandrs Ciganovs is still in the building
- The dugout Roberts Rugins knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout Jānis Grīnbergs keeps his manager's vote