63
Edition
The Skonto Gazette
11 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad11 Oct 2027
Vladimirs Jurkovskis damages knee ligaments — 108 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 108 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market11 Oct 2027
Aleksandrs Dubra asks to leave Skonto
“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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
A fracture rules Vitalijs Vanins out for 21 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Skonto will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
In brief
- Squad Tempers go at Skonto
- Squad Aleksandrs Fertovs falls out with a teammate over standards
- Market Davis Vanins leaves for nothing