Davis Laizans

Central Defender - Jelgava
5 Dec 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Davis Laizans

17 Edition

The Jelgava Sentinel

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Roberts Savalnieks out for 78 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Jelgava will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

A falling-out at Jelgava

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

Loan watch

Roberts Dubra counts the days

“I watch every Jelgava 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 dugout

Alvis Tarasovs 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 Alvis Tarasovs is on it.

Market

The Nikita Kamess talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Jelgava know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout

The manager comes out for Igors Zjuzins

Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Igors Zjuzins has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Jelgava Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Jelgava turn down Daugavpils for Alvis Cauna

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets

Alvis Bulvitis turns down Jelgava

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Skonto keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Transfer targets

No deal for Igors Zjuzins at that price

Jelgava offered $250.0K; Spartaks said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Market

Business is business: Nikita Kamess goes

Ventspils paid $120.0K and Jelgava took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

Roberts Rugins 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 Jelgava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Ceti Junior Tchibinda is in the works

Jelgava have made the call to Daugavpils. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Squad

Davis Laizans signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Davis Laizans and Jelgava agree another 3 years.

The dugout

Alvis Tarasovs has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Jelgava 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.

Market

The Nikita Kamess talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Jelgava know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief