Marked for Eduards Cauna
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
Vitalijs Cauna 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Vitalijs Savalnieks 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The training reports on Eduards Cauna are not good
A bad Saturday is forgiven; a bad Tuesday is chosen. Standards have slipped and in a building where everybody watches everybody, it has been noticed.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 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 Spartaks this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Eduards Cauna 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Pavels Fertovs pulls a muscle — 14 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Loan watch19 Oct 2026
“I did not go to Atyrau to sit and watch. I want to come back to Spartaks and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 6 matches say the rest.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Arturs Oss gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Arturs Oss is on it.
Market19 Oct 2026
The Gatis Rugins talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Spartaks know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Pavels Bulvitis 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Eduards Cauna 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 watch12 Oct 2026
“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 9 say he has earned the hearing.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
42 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Spartaks training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Eduards Cauna 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Spartaks
Kristaps 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Kristaps Bulvitis and Spartaks agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I watch every Spartaks 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.
The dugout14 Sep 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market7 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
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 Spartaks, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Spartaks close the window on a squad of their own making
1 in and 5 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Spartaks had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Potenza, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Spartaks training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Eduards Cauna 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.
Squad7 Sep 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 Spartaks this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Spartaks will try again when the window opens; Skonto may not be selling by then.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Pavels Fertovs slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Pavels Fertovs is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
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Steady
Squad3 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 Spartaks this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Spartaks have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Spartaks
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Eduards Cauna was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Ludogorets have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Market3 Aug 2026
Kristaps Rugins is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Spartaks has been clear about where Kristaps Rugins stands, which is more than many ever get.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Arturs Cauna 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.