The Spartaks Post
Squad20 Sep 2027
Nicolás Castillo wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Spartaks know it.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Artem Bykov 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.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Roberts Tarasovs 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 Spartaks this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad20 Sep 2027
7 new faces, and Spartaks are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Loan watch20 Sep 2027
Pavels Gabovs counts the days
“I watch every Spartaks game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Metta/LU runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Market20 Sep 2027
The shop window has Nicolás Castillo in it
Spartaks have let the market know Nicolás Castillo can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
In brief
- Market The clock does Duarte Furtado’s negotiating for him
- Market Roberts Cauna leaves for nothing
- Market Janis Jurkovskis leaves for nothing
- Loan watch Eduards Tarasovs cannot get a game at Veres