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The Skonto Gazette
26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
Roberts Jurkovskis damages knee ligaments — 31 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 31 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Olegs Jurkovskis 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Skonto
Vitalijs 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.
In brief
- Squad Questions about Olegs Jurkovskis on the training pitch
- The dugout The manager comes out for Olegs Jurkovskis