Marked for Roberts Laizans
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad19 Oct 2026
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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The medical room confirms 53 days on the sidelines for Marcis Bulvitis, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad19 Oct 2026
18 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
Skonto say no — this time
The offer from Metta/LU for Pavels Zjuzins was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad17 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 Skonto this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market17 Aug 2026
The name of Aleksandrs Cauna has come up in conversations Skonto were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Roberts Laizans and Skonto agree another 3 years.
Squad17 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Matvey Lukin
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Skonto will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Market17 Aug 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Alvis Ikaunieks has his answer from Skonto; what he does with it is the next window’s story.