Raivis Oss

Goalkeeper - Skonto
18 Nov 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Raivis Oss

55 Edition

The Skonto Gazette

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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.

Market

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

Back issues
53 Edition

The Skonto Gazette

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Spartaks come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Skonto did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

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.

Squad

Aleksandrs Kamess is the real thing at 21

A season average of 7.00 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Skonto know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

In brief

51 Edition

The Skonto Gazette

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Marcis Vanins

18 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Skonto lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Mikheil Janelidze 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.

Squad

Words at Skonto training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ángel Osorio 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.

In brief

48 Edition

The Skonto Gazette

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Marcis Vanins damages knee ligaments — 42 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 42 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

Skonto up to position 1

36 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Squad

Raivis Oss keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Skonto may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

In brief