The Jelgava Sentinel
Market10 Aug 2026
Liepaja come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Jelgava did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market10 Aug 2026
Alvis Fertovs 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 Jelgava can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Janis Ciganovs signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Janis Ciganovs commits to Jelgava for another 2 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Janis Ciganovs 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 Jelgava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Aleksandrs Laizans 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
Eduards Bulvitis 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 Jelgava bring in an old head
- Market No place for Marcis Oss in the plan