The Skonto Gazette
Squad16 Aug 2027
Adam Ševínský 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Marcis Jagodinskis 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
This league is too small for Arnas Voitinovičius
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Skonto will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Squad16 Aug 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Rodolphe Ekou's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Market16 Aug 2027
Skonto put Olegs Vanins up for sale
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Olegs Vanins may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Market16 Aug 2027
Marcis Rugins leaves for nothing
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Marcis Rugins leaves Skonto the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
In brief
- Market Nikita Jagodinskis leaves for nothing
- Market The Raivis Oss story refuses to die