Gatis Bulvitis

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13 Mar 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Gatis Bulvitis

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The Ventspils Gazette

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Igors Bulvitis 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 Ventspils this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Loan watch

Kaspars Rugins counts the days

“I watch every Ventspils game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Liepaja runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Squad

Words at Ventspils training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcis Fertovs 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.

In brief

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The Ventspils Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Ventspils bow out of the cup

Daugavpils go through and Ventspils go home, 1‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Player ratings

A debut Dmitriy Tokarev will not forget — 7.24

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 0 on the scoresheet, 7.24 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Market

Torpedo Moscow come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Ventspils did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Igors Bulvitis 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 Ventspils this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Pavels Ikaunieks gets it from the manager

“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.

Squad

Gatis Bulvitis signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Gatis Bulvitis and Ventspils agree another 3 years.

Squad

Ventspils pick somebody else ahead of Marcis Jurkovskis

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Market

No place for Kristaps Fertovs in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Kristaps Fertovs has his answer from Ventspils; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Market

Zsombor Gruber arrives on loan

Ventspils have taken Zsombor Gruber on loan from Ferencvaros — cover where cover was needed.

In brief