Marked for Kaspars Fertovs
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
33 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Skonto lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Skonto
Gatis Kamess and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Marcis 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Kaspars Jagodinskis is on it.
Market28 Sep 2026
The shop window has Arturs Cauna in it
Skonto have let the market know Arturs Cauna can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
Market28 Sep 2026
The name of Kaspars Fertovs keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Skonto say nothing, which says plenty.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 79 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market14 Sep 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Skonto training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcis Stolcers 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Umar Ekong commits to Skonto for another 3 years.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Spartaks to sit and watch. I want to come back to Skonto and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Skonto
Umar Ekong and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
86 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Skonto lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market7 Sep 2026
Skonto say no — this time
The offer from Liepaja for Davis Kamess was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Ventspils had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Market7 Sep 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 Skonto, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market7 Sep 2026
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Daugavpils moved on, Arturs Fertovs reports back to Skonto, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Skonto close the window on a squad of their own making
1 in and 6 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Zalgiris is saying, and nobody at Skonto is enjoying the guessing.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Skonto this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
109 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Skonto lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market17 Aug 2026
Jelgava come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Skonto did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $28.4K — a club that wants Iļja Korotkovs enough to be asked twice.
Market17 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Skonto have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Skonto
Gatis Kamess 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$25.0K on the table at Liepaja. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Liepaja wanted more than $21.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. BATE have kept their man, and Skonto go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Skonto
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marcis Stolcers was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.