Arturs Vanins

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Marked for Arturs Vanins

7 Edition

The Spartaks Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market14 Sep 2026

Vitalijs Tarasovs asks to leave Spartaks

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Rubén Rivas 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 Spartaks this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Words at Spartaks training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Eirik Brekke 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 watch14 Sep 2026

Eduards Rugins has seen enough of Liepaja

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Spartaks, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Eduards Rugins has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Spartaks will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market14 Sep 2026

Spartaks and Janis Fertovs are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Spartaks Post

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market7 Sep 2026

Roberts 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 Spartaks can pretend not to have heard.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Spartaks

Rubén Rivas 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Eirik Brekke 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.

In brief

3 Edition

The Spartaks Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Eduards Rugins

Successful dribbles: 41. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match12 Aug 2026

Spartaks through in the cup

A 2‑0 win over Jelgava, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

A debut Vitalijs Tarasovs will not forget — 7.63

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 7.63 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Market17 Aug 2026

Spartaks turn down Daugavpils for Vladimirs Gabovs

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

Squad17 Aug 2026

Eduards Rugins 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 Spartaks this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces17 Aug 2026

Spartaks supporters have found a favourite in Vitalijs Tarasovs

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Vitalijs Tarasovs has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Squad17 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Igors Stolcers

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Arturs Jurkovskis stays put

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

Squad17 Aug 2026

Eduards Rugins has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Spartaks will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

1 Edition

The Spartaks Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market3 Aug 2026

Vitalijs Tarasovs 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Spartaks

Eduards Rugins 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Nikita Kaplenko signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nikita Kaplenko and Spartaks agree another 2 years.

Market3 Aug 2026

Metta/LU join the queue for Igors Rugins

Add another name to the list: Metta/LU have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Igors Rugins. The answer from Spartaks has not changed — yet.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Karam Sūltanov has outgrown this division

There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Spartaks know it, and so does everybody who watches him.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Alvis Stolcers 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 Alvis Stolcers trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief