The Spartaks Post
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Nobody could get near Alvis Jagodinskis
Successful dribbles: 38. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The terraces7 Jun 2027
Anger at Spartaks spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Market7 Jun 2027
Kaspars Laizans hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Spartaks can pretend not to have heard.
Market7 Jun 2027
Liepaja come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Spartaks did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Alvis Jagodinskis 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Words at Spartaks training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Krišs Kārkliņš 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.
Market7 Jun 2027
Eduards Gabovs attracts admirers
The name of Eduards Gabovs has come up in conversations Spartaks were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Match5 Jun 2027
Janis Laizans the difference as Spartaks beat Metta/LU
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Janis Laizans. 1‑0 against Metta/LU, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Igors Jurkovskis out for 58 days
The medical room confirms 58 days on the sidelines for Igors Jurkovskis, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
In brief
- Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Janis Laizans
- Squad A place in the month's best eleven for Olegs Gabovs
- Market Still no signature from Duarte Furtado