Igors Savalnieks

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The Spartaks Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match19 Aug 2026

The small margins put Spartaks out

Out, 0‑5 to Liepaja, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Market24 Aug 2026

Vitalijs Oss 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 Spartaks can pretend not to have heard.

Squad24 Aug 2026

7 saves: Pavels Laizans was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

The terraces24 Aug 2026

A cup embarrassment at Liepaja follows Spartaks home

0-5. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.

Market24 Aug 2026

Akron 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.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Janis Ciganovs was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 25. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Spartaks bid $3.0K for Kristaps Kamess

The offer went to Jelgava this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Door shut on Vojtěch Gornický

Spartaks asked and Slovan Liberec said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Igors Savalnieks 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 Spartaks this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

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The Spartaks Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market10 Aug 2026

Skonto 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

Not going: Eduards Oss stays at Spartaks

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Neftchi had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Raivis Vanins pulls a muscle — 15 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 15 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Motiejus Burba due for a Spartaks medical

Everything agreed with Kauno Zalgiris, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Alvis Fertovs stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Alvis Fertovs and Spartaks agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad10 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Spartaks

Alvis Fertovs and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Janis Ciganovs 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.

The dugout10 Aug 2026

Igors Savalnieks gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout10 Aug 2026

Alvis Fertovs knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Alvis Fertovs trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief