Marked for Davis Bulvitis
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
“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 The request is on a desk at Jelgava, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 0 in, 3 out at Jelgava
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 0 arrived, 3 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Jelgava
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Olegs Vanins was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It will be explained as a change for the team and it may even be one. Nobody who has worn one believes that, and neither does the man who has just had it taken away.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Olegs Stolcers has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Pavels Cauna moves up the pecking order
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Jelgava than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Eduards Ciganovs, and the manager let it.
Market7 Sep 2026
The market said no: Marcis Dubra stays put
Jelgava opened the door and nobody walked through it. So Marcis Dubra stays — listed, trained, and available — while both sides mark the days to January on the same calendar.
Market7 Sep 2026
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Davis Bulvitis leaves Jelgava the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market31 Aug 2026
Igors Zjuzins 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Igors Kamess again, and this time the name on the line is Ventspils. Jelgava are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Aleksandrs Stolcers commits to Jelgava for another 3 years.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Marcis Dubra may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Aleksandrs Stolcers trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Igors Zjuzins plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Davis Bulvitis is not doing himself any favours
A manager forgives a bad Saturday far more readily than a bad Tuesday, because one of them he can explain and the other one he chose. The reports this week have not been good.
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Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Jelgava
Janis Jagodinskis and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Jelgava asked and NK Celje said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Jelgava training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Olegs Vanins 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Rodolphe Ekou is in the works
Jelgava have made the call to Liepaja. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Marko Capan is in the works
Jelgava have made the call to Zalgiris. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.