Roberts Dubra

Left Forward - Metta/LU
11 Oct 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Roberts Dubra

9 Edition

The Jelgava Sentinel

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Roberts Savalnieks breaks a bone — 136 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 136 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

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.

Squad

Jelgava count the cost of losing Alvis Jagodinskis

18 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

Nikita Kamess 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.

Loan watch

Roberts Dubra wants to come home

“I did not go to Metta/LU to sit and watch. I want to come back to Jelgava and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.

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.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The Metta/LU Gazette

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Words exchanged at Metta/LU

Mahamud Abdul Karimu 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Metta/LU

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

Squad

The training reports on Igors Jurkovskis are not good

A bad Saturday is forgiven; a bad Tuesday is chosen. Standards have slipped and in a building where everybody watches everybody, it has been noticed.

In brief

4 Edition

The Metta/LU Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

Vitalijs Bulvitis is a medical away from Metta/LU

The deal with Jelgava is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Stephane Moukandjo rejects the move

Metta/LU had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Skonto, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

A falling-out at Metta/LU

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

Squad

A row about effort at Metta/LU

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

Transfer targets

Metta/LU ask about Igors Laizans

A loan enquiry to Jelgava: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Squad

Kristaps Tarasovs signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kristaps Tarasovs commits to Metta/LU for another 3 years.

In brief