Marked for Raivis Ciganovs
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market7 Sep 2026
Metta/LU come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Jelgava did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Raúl Tito 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
The name of Marcis Stolcers has come up in conversations Jelgava were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Roberts Rugins 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Raivis Ciganovs, and the manager let it.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market31 Aug 2026
“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 The request is on a desk at Jelgava, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market31 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Daugavpils have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Raivis Ciganovs. The answer from Jelgava has not changed — yet.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Raúl Tito 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Roberts Jurkovskis 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match12 Aug 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Kaspars Rugins obliged against Spartaks. 1‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Jelgava.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Janis Cauna decides it from twelve yards
1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Market17 Aug 2026
Jelgava say no — this time
The offer from Metta/LU for Raivis Ciganovs was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Raúl Tito 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 8.13 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad17 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Raúl Tito
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Jelgava will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Olegs Stolcers commits to Jelgava for another 3 years.
Market17 Aug 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Aleksandrs Stolcers has his answer from Jelgava; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 10. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.