The Ventspils Gazette
Market3 Aug 2026
Eyes on Janis Oss again
The phone has started ringing about Janis Oss again, and this time the name on the line is Fakel. Ventspils are listening politely and promising nothing.
Market3 Aug 2026
Gatis Laizans asks to leave Ventspils
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ventspils count the cost of losing Eduards Tarasovs
45 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Janis Oss 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Ventspils
Igors 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Ilja Kutepov
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Ventspils will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
In brief
- Market Talks stall between Ventspils and Vladimirs Zjuzins
- Market No place for Vitalijs Tarasovs in the plan