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Edition
The Skonto Gazette
14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Brayan Alcócer out for 94 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Skonto will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Gatis Vanins damages knee ligaments — 15 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 15 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Daugavpils come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Skonto did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
In brief
- Squad Dylan Ragolle in a row with a teammate
- Squad Words at Skonto training over how hard people work
- Loan watch Davis Zjuzins has seen enough of Metta/LU
- Market The window shut and Nikita Jagodinskis is still in the building