Davis Cauna

Central Defender - Ventspils
1 Sep 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Davis Cauna

4 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Ventspils say no — this time

The offer from Skonto for Marcis Jurkovskis was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market

Davis Cauna 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 The request is on a desk at Ventspils, and it is not being withdrawn.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $110.0K sale of Olegs Cauna

He is going to Jelgava, the club has $110.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Squad

Eduards Laizans 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 Ventspils this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Business is business: Olegs Cauna goes

Jelgava paid $110.0K and Ventspils took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Market

Ventspils sell Kaspars Vanins for $9.0K

Kaspars Vanins has left for Metta/LU in a $9.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Raivis Oss runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 61. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Ventspils out of the cup

Daugavpils ended it 1‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Squad

Eduards Laizans is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Eduards Laizans: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Market

Ventspils turn down Khimik for Kaspars Vanins

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Davis 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 Ventspils this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Igors Stolcers attracts admirers

The name of Igors Stolcers has come up in conversations Ventspils were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Words at Ventspils training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aleksandrs Jurkovskis 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Raivis Cauna

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Raivis Cauna, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

The kick that got away from Vladimirs Jagodinskis

Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.

In brief

1 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Ventspils say no — this time

The offer from Metta/LU for Igors Stolcers was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Tempers go at Ventspils

Davis Tarasovs 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.

Squad

Aidas Girdvainis signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Aidas Girdvainis commits to Ventspils for another 1 years.

Squad

Kristaps Rugins 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.

Market

Davis Cauna is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Ventspils has been clear about where Davis Cauna stands, which is more than many ever get.

Squad

Raivis Cauna knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Raivis Cauna trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief