Marked for Bachana Qazaishvili
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Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 72 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Gatis Kamess 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 Skonto this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
“I watch every Skonto game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Daugavpils runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Bachana Qazaishvili and Skonto agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market21 Sep 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Gatis Kamess may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Skonto training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikita Ikaunieks 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.
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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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Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
93 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.
Market31 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Skonto say no — this time
The offer from Liepaja for Marcis Stolcers 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The deal with Zalgiris is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Slavia Prague is saying, and nobody at Skonto is enjoying the guessing.
Market31 Aug 2026
Stepan Yermakov has left for Ventspils in a $38.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Skonto asked and Jelgava said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market31 Aug 2026
Metta/LU pay $6.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Skonto
Igors Laizans 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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 101 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Arturs Fertovs: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match19 Aug 2026
Skonto march on in the cup
Daugavpils are out and Skonto go through, 0‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Market24 Aug 2026
Slutsk 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Arturs Fertovs again, and this time the name on the line is Daugavpils. Skonto are listening politely and promising nothing.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Skonto offered $27.0K; Liepaja said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Astra have kept their man, and Skonto go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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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.