Pavels Dubra

Central Defender - Skonto
10 Aug 2030
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Marked for Pavels Dubra

153 Edition

The Skonto Gazette

2 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market2 Jul 2029

Aidan Elliott-Wheeler agrees terms with Spartaks

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Skonto people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market2 Jul 2029

Pavels Dubra 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 The request is on a desk at Skonto, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market2 Jul 2029

Clément Moulun has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Skonto they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad2 Jul 2029

A row about effort at Skonto

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alberto Del Moral was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets2 Jul 2029

Door shut on Marco Alia

Skonto asked and Skënderbeu Korçë said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market2 Jul 2029

Issa Karakodio attracts admirers

The name of Issa Karakodio has come up in conversations Skonto were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad2 Jul 2029

Raivis Dubra 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.

Squad2 Jul 2029

A month that belonged to Tao Belabdi

The young player of the month award goes to a 21-year-old at Skonto who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.

Squad2 Jul 2029

Player of the month: Alberto Del Moral

Four weeks in which nobody in the division did his job better. The award goes on a shelf and the player goes back into the side, which is the order Skonto prefer.

In brief

Back issues
140 Edition

The Skonto Gazette

2 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market2 Apr 2029

Pavels Dubra 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 Skonto can pretend not to have heard.

Market2 Apr 2029

Aidan Elliott-Wheeler has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Skonto they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad2 Apr 2029

Djibril Guèye signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Djibril Guèye commits to Skonto for another 2 years.

Squad2 Apr 2029

A row about effort at Skonto

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alberto Del Moral was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad2 Apr 2029

Words exchanged at Skonto

Raivis Dubra 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.

Squad2 Apr 2029

Raivis Bulvitis named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Raivis Bulvitis is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

Market2 Apr 2029

No place for Alvis Rugins in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Alvis Rugins has his answer from Skonto; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

The dugout2 Apr 2029

Raivis Jurkovskis gets it from the manager

“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.

The dugout2 Apr 2029

Alberto Del Moral 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 Alberto Del Moral trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

135 Edition

The Skonto Gazette

26 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match20 Feb 2029

A chastening European night for Skonto

0‑5 against VfB Stuttgart. The honest reading is not that the players were poor; it is that the distance between this club and that one is currently measured in things money takes years to buy.

Squad26 Feb 2029

9 saves: Tjalling van Keimpema was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Market26 Feb 2029

Only the photograph left for Issa Karakodio

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Issa Karakodio will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Skonto the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad26 Feb 2029

A falling-out at Skonto

Roberts Stolcers and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad26 Feb 2029

A row about effort at Skonto

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ibrahima Dramé was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout26 Feb 2029

Aidan Elliott-Wheeler gets it from the manager

“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.

Boardroom26 Feb 2029

Doors closed at Skonto

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

The dugout26 Feb 2029

Janis Cauna: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑5, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout26 Feb 2029

Raivis Bulvitis 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 Raivis Bulvitis is on it.

In brief

125 Edition

The Skonto Gazette

18 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match13 Dec 2028

A European night to remember for Skonto

0‑0 against Novi Pazar, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.

Market18 Dec 2028

Arthur Parker is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Skonto is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad18 Dec 2028

Tempers go at Skonto

Roberts Stolcers 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.

Squad18 Dec 2028

Remember the name: Davis Ciganovs

He is 21, he is averaging 7.00, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.

Squad18 Dec 2028

A row about effort at Skonto

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Davis Ciganovs was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout18 Dec 2028

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Janis Cauna chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.

The dugout18 Dec 2028

Zilkifilu Rabiu has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Skonto will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout18 Dec 2028

No hiding place for Mattéo D'Antona

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mattéo D'Antona, and the manager let it.

The dugout18 Dec 2028

Skonto pick somebody else ahead of Pavels Dubra

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief