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Marked for Raivis Oss

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The Spartaks Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Kristaps Kamess

71 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Spartaks lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

A fracture rules Nikita Tarasovs out for 49 days

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

Market

Raivis Oss 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 The request is on a desk at Spartaks, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Roberts Savalnieks stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Roberts Savalnieks and Spartaks agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

A falling-out at Spartaks

Igors Zjuzins and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Loan watch

Eduards Rugins wants to come home

“I did not go to Daugavpils to sit and watch. I want to come back to Spartaks and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The Spartaks Post

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Kristaps Kamess damages knee ligaments — 92 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 92 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.

Squad

A fracture rules Nikita Tarasovs out for 71 days

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

Market

Igors Zjuzins 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 The request is on a desk at Spartaks, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Words exchanged at Spartaks

Eduards Rugins and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Words at Spartaks training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Eduards Dubra 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.

The dugout

Janis Bulvitis knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Spartaks, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

7 Edition

The Spartaks Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Nikita Tarasovs breaks a bone — 79 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 79 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Skonto come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Spartaks did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets

Slovan Liberec tell Spartaks: Jinřich Musil 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.

Squad

Aleksandrs Bulvitis 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.

Loan watch

Eduards Rugins counts the days

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

Squad

A falling-out at Spartaks

Raivis Oss and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

In brief

3 Edition

The Spartaks Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

110 days out for Nikita Tarasovs after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Spartaks will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Terms done: Olegs Fertovs is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and MFK Skalica waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Spartaks is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Match

Spartaks bow out of the cup

Jelgava go through and Spartaks go home, 3‑4 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Player ratings

A brace, and Marcis Tarasovs takes the afternoon — 9.28

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Marcis Tarasovs provided it, and the 9.28 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Kristaps Laizans keeps Spartaks in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Marcis Tarasovs says no to AFC Leopards

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Marcis Tarasovs had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Market

Ventspils come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Spartaks did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Raivis Oss 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 Spartaks, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

A hand in 2 of them from Janis Dubra — 7.80

Marked 7.80. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.

In brief