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18 Edition

The Skonto Gazette

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad30 Nov 2026

Igors Jagodinskis breaks a bone — 45 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 45 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad30 Nov 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Alvis Gabovs

18 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.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Roberts 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 Skonto this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

Back issues
17 Edition

The Skonto Gazette

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad23 Nov 2026

A fracture rules Igors Jagodinskis out for 53 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Skonto will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad23 Nov 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Alvis Gabovs

25 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.

Market23 Nov 2026

Only the photograph left for Igors Jagodinskis

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Igors Jagodinskis will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Skonto the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Tempers go at Skonto

Roberts Laizans 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.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Words at Skonto training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rodolphe Ekou 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.

Loan watch23 Nov 2026

Vitalijs Cauna counts the days

“I watch every Skonto game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Metta/LU runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

In brief

16 Edition

The Skonto Gazette

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom16 Nov 2026

Silverware for Skonto

They will talk about this season in this town for a long time. The trophy comes home with the squad, and the route is already agreed.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Roberts Laizans breaks a bone — 16 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 16 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad16 Nov 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Alvis Gabovs

32 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.

In brief

15 Edition

The Skonto Gazette

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad9 Nov 2026

Roberts Laizans breaks a bone — 23 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 23 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad9 Nov 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Alvis Gabovs

39 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.

Match4 Nov 2026

Skonto out of the cup

Ventspils ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Tempers go at Skonto

Roberts Laizans 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.

Loan watch9 Nov 2026

Aleksandrs Bulvitis counts the days

“I watch every Skonto game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Liepaja runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Squad9 Nov 2026

No place for Vladimirs Vanins on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Skonto pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

In brief