Gatis Vanins

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Marked for Gatis Vanins

7 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

Back issues
6 Edition

The Skonto Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad7 Sep 2026

Brayan Alcócer breaks a bone — 102 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 102 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Gatis Vanins

23 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Skonto lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market7 Sep 2026

Vitalijs Zjuzins puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Skonto, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Skonto

Dylan Ragolle 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.

Market7 Sep 2026

Eyes on Janis Bulvitis again

The phone has started ringing about Janis Bulvitis again, and this time the name on the line is Daugavpils. Skonto are listening politely and promising nothing.

Market7 Sep 2026

Aleksandrs Jurkovskis moves on

Ventspils pay $64.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

In brief

5 Edition

The Skonto Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad31 Aug 2026

Brayan Alcócer breaks a bone — 111 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 111 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Gatis Vanins damages knee ligaments — 31 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 31 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.

Market31 Aug 2026

Nikita Jagodinskis hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Skonto can pretend not to have heard.

In brief

4 Edition

The Skonto Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad24 Aug 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Gatis Vanins

39 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Skonto lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match19 Aug 2026

Cup progress for Skonto

A 3‑2 win over Jelgava, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Kaspars Laizans scores twice — 9.32

Two goals and a mark of 9.32 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market24 Aug 2026

Aleksandrs Jurkovskis puts it in writing

“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 Skonto, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market24 Aug 2026

Metta/LU join the queue for Andrius Paulauskas

Add another name to the list: Metta/LU have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Andrius Paulauskas. The answer from Skonto has not changed — yet.

The terraces24 Aug 2026

Skonto supporters have found a favourite in Brayan Alcócer

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Brayan Alcócer has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Aleksandrs Ikaunieks runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Raivis Stolcers 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.

Match19 Aug 2026

Kaspars Laizans answers Jelgava immediately

Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Kaspars Laizans had Skonto level again within 3 minutes, and Jelgava never got to play with a lead at all.

In brief