Marked for Eduards Laizans
From our football correspondent
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Market25 Jan 2027
Alvis Cauna hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ventspils can pretend not to have heard.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Junior Brítez 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
Jelgava paid $17.0K and Ventspils took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Market25 Jan 2027
Add another name to the list: Jelgava have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Kristaps Oss. The answer from Ventspils has not changed — yet.
Squad25 Jan 2027
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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Nobody writes a headline about a tutor. Nobody has to be told, either, what happens to a signing who spends two years being the man nobody can talk to at lunch.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
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Squad28 Dec 2026
The medical room confirms 19 days on the sidelines for Artur Pikk, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Artur Pikk 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 Ventspils this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Ventspils training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Igors Ikaunieks 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
Squad30 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Igors Laizans
20 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ventspils lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Jesús Lugo 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 Ventspils this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Ventspils training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Igors Ikaunieks 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
Squad16 Nov 2026
Jesús Lugo 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 Ventspils this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Ventspils training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Igors Ikaunieks 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.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Jelgava to sit and watch. I want to come back to Ventspils and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
Junior Brítez 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Ventspils training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Igors Ikaunieks 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
From our football correspondent
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Market5 Oct 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Jesús Lugo 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 Ventspils this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Ventspils training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Igors Ikaunieks 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
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Squad14 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Marcis Vanins
95 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Jelgava lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The medical room confirms 20 days on the sidelines for Kaspars Gabovs, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Jelgava training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Davis Jurkovskis 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
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Squad14 Sep 2026
Rodolphe Ekou 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Igors Ikaunieks 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The medical room confirms 43 days on the sidelines for Arturs Jurkovskis, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
From our football correspondent
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Market31 Aug 2026
Ventspils say no — this time
The offer from Jelgava for Eduards Laizans 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ventspils this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
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Market24 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market24 Aug 2026
Lida come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Ventspils did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Jesús Lugo 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 Ventspils this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of Eduards Laizans has come up in conversations Ventspils were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Ventspils training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Igors Ikaunieks 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.