The Spartaks Post
Squad31 Aug 2026
Aleksandrs Vanins damages knee ligaments — 126 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 126 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market31 Aug 2026
Spartaks say no — this time
The offer from Metta/LU for Aleksandrs Tarasovs 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Olegs Tarasovs 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Kajally Drammeh will not be coming to Spartaks
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Alashkert is saying, and nobody at Spartaks is enjoying the guessing.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Deportivo Maldonado tell Spartaks: Santiago Cartagena is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Spartaks
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aleksandrs Tarasovs was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Spartaks
Raivis Jagodinskis and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market31 Aug 2026
Metta/LU watching Arturs Zjuzins
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Spartaks have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
A loan move for Teodor Ivanov is in the works
Spartaks have made the call to CSKA Sofia. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
In brief
- Squad Olegs Oss signs on for more
- Market No place for Igors Cauna in the plan
- The dugout Janis Dubra gets picked when it counts