The Ventspils Gazette
Market3 Aug 2026
Eduards Jurkovskis puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Ventspils, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market3 Aug 2026
Arsenal Dzerzhinsk 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.
Squad3 Aug 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Vitalijs Kamess signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Vitalijs Kamess and Ventspils agree another 2 years.
Squad3 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Metta/LU watching Arturs Oss
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Ventspils have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
In brief
- Squad This league is too small for Artur Pikk
- Market Janis Dubra told to find a new club