Janis Savalnieks

Striker - Liepaja
25 Oct 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Janis Savalnieks

12 Edition

The Jelgava Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Olegs Bulvitis damages knee ligaments — 56 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 56 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.

Market

Only the photograph left for Roberts Rugins

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Roberts Rugins will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Jelgava the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Boardroom

Roberts Rugins has agreed to leave Jelgava for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The Jelgava Sentinel

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Olegs Bulvitis

87 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Jelgava lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Tempers go at Jelgava

Marcis Ikaunieks 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.

Loan watch

Janis Savalnieks wants to come home

“I did not go to Liepaja to sit and watch. I want to come back to Jelgava and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 6 matches say the rest.

In brief