The Skonto Gazette
Squad30 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Skonto
Arsen Adamov 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Bernardo Matić 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 watch30 Aug 2027
Kristaps Savalnieks has seen enough of Spartaks
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Skonto, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Viktor Lisztes has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Skonto know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Market30 Aug 2027
The Gatis Fertovs conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Spartaks will make the call about Gatis Fertovs this week. Skonto have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Squad30 Aug 2027
No hiding place for Roberts Tarasovs
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Roberts Tarasovs, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Market Skonto borrow Viktor Lisztes
- Market Janis Rugins leaves for nothing
- Market Raivis Jurkovskis leaves for nothing