The Spartaks Post
Market3 Aug 2026
Alvis Gabovs puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at Spartaks, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Spartaks
Eduards Jurkovskis and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market3 Aug 2026
Daugavpils watching Raivis Tarasovs
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Spartaks have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Spartaks lose Kaspars Gabovs
15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Rodolphe Ekou is in the works
Spartaks have made the call to Liepaja. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Spartaks try to borrow Kristofer Käit
Paide have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Spartaks ask about Marcel Grillitsch
A loan enquiry to Mattersburg: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Eduards Jurkovskis knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Spartaks, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Spartaks
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alvis Stolcers was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- Market Olegs Ciganovs is free to find somewhere else
- Market Spartaks and Kaspars Ikaunieks are talking past each other
- Squad Kaspars Ikaunieks is not saying it is over