The Spartaks Post
Squad10 Aug 2026
Alexey Tkhagalegov damages knee ligaments — 38 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 38 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Raivis Cauna 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Metta/LU 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Vitalijs Rugins signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Vitalijs Rugins and Spartaks agree another 2 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Alexey Tkhagalegov 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Vitalijs Rugins
“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.
In brief
- Market Davis Stolcers is free to find somewhere else
- Market The Pavels Stolcers talk will not go away