The Spartaks Post
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
- Market Nobody at Spartaks has picked up the phone to Gatis Jurkovskis
- Market Nikita Cauna goes out on loan