The Metta/LU Gazette
Squad10 Aug 2026
Filip Valenčič signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Filip Valenčič commits to Metta/LU for another 1 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Metta/LU
Slaviša Bogdanović 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Filip Valenčič 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Örken Makhan has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Metta/LU know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Saymah Kamara's contract
48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Market10 Aug 2026
Metta/LU borrow Maksims Bērziņš
A season-long look at somebody else’s player: Maksims Bērziņš arrives from Daugavpils with something to prove and a return ticket in the drawer. Good loans make everybody richer; this one starts Saturday.
In brief
- Market Aleksandrs Savalnieks arrives on loan
- Market Metta/LU borrow Janis Cauna