The Skonto Gazette
Squad21 Jun 2032
A knee injury of the worst kind for Arturs Bulvitis
49 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Skonto lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market21 Jun 2032
Spartaks come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Skonto did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad21 Jun 2032
Tempers go at Skonto
Olegs Jagodinskis 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.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2032
Door shut on Dionis Pera
Skonto asked and Partizani Tirana said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad21 Jun 2032
Skonto lose Olegs Kamess
32 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad21 Jun 2032
Words at Skonto training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Julian Lelieveld 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.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2032
A loan move for Odisea Gjati is in the works
Skonto have made the call to Partizani Tirana. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout21 Jun 2032
When it matters, Olegs Jagodinskis plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout21 Jun 2032
Denis Ndoye gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
- Market Talks stall between Skonto and Davis Bulvitis
- The dugout The manager makes Mateo Acosta a promise
- The dugout Goodluck Anuba knocks on the manager’s door