The Skonto Gazette
Squad30 Nov 2026
Roberts Tarasovs breaks a bone — 36 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 36 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market30 Nov 2026
Only the photograph left for Vitalijs Ikaunieks
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Vitalijs Ikaunieks will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Skonto the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Skonto
Ifeagwu Ojukwu 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Arturs Kamess signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Arturs Kamess commits to Skonto for another 3 years.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Pavels Kamess knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Pavels Kamess trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Kristaps Ciganovs 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 Kristaps Ciganovs is on it.
In brief
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Alvis Jurkovskis
- Squad Odion Ejuke is out on the grass again