The Skonto Gazette
Squad19 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for a squad player
20 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Nikita Bulvitis signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nikita Bulvitis commits to Skonto for another 3 years.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Skonto
Kirill Volkov 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Skonto training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rodolphe Ekou 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 watch19 Oct 2026
Kristaps Jurkovskis counts the days
“I watch every Skonto game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Metta/LU runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Raivis Tarasovs 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.
In brief
- Market Vladimirs Jurkovskis linked with a move away
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Vladimirs Jurkovskis