Marked for Davis Vanins
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
Davis Vanins 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Andriy Korobenko 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Questions about Ingars Pūlis on the training pitch
The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Dec 2026
Davis Vanins 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 Liepaja this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rodolphe Ekou, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Dec 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market2 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Liepaja is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Davis Vanins 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 Liepaja this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Bart Straalman has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
Andriy Korobenko 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Davis Vanins 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Vjačeslavs Isajevs plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market19 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Bruno Melnis
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Bruno Melnis will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Liepaja the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Bart Straalman 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Liepaja training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vjačeslavs Isajevs 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market14 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Amar Haïdara
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Amar Haïdara will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Liepaja the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Andriy Korobenko 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Davis Vanins 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market24 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 Liepaja, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market24 Aug 2026
Bruno Melnis has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Liepaja they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Marvin Martins 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.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Liepaja spend $290.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $290.0K for Davis Vanins, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Liepaja training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andriy Korobenko 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Davis Vanins is 19, and Liepaja have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
From our football correspondent
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Market24 Aug 2026
The unthinkable, invoiced: Davis Vanins sold
Liepaja arrived with $290.0K and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.
Market24 Aug 2026
Liepaja come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Spartaks did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market24 Aug 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.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Supporters turn on the $290.0K sale of Davis Vanins
He is going to Liepaja, the club has $290.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Brando Castillo 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Janis 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.