The Skonto Gazette
Squad28 Sep 2026
The knee: Raivis Vanins out for 33 days
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
Kaspars Jagodinskis gets picked when it counts
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
Kaspars Fertovs linked with a move away
The name of Kaspars Fertovs keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Skonto say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
- Loan watch The clock runs down on Raivis Vanins at Metta/LU
- Squad Mykhailo Malynovskyi back in training