Marked for Igors Jagodinskis
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Upbeat
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Roberts Laizans out for 82 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Nikita Vanins to Naftan has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Skonto with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Skonto
Rodolphe Ekou 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Skonto training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kaspars Stolcers 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 watch14 Sep 2026
“I watch every Skonto game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Liepaja runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Market14 Sep 2026
6 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Skonto could get for him.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad7 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 90 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market7 Sep 2026
Olegs Kamess hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Skonto can pretend not to have heard.
Market7 Sep 2026
Add another name to the list: Naftan have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Nikita Vanins. The answer from Skonto has not changed — yet.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Bruno Melnis has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Skonto have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Skonto this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Kaspars Oss, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Skonto this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Kaspars Stolcers 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Olegs Rugins and Skonto agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Skonto have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Krišs Kārkliņš
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. Skonto will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.