The Spartaks Post
Squad3 Mar 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Kaspars Rugins
62 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Spartaks lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad3 Mar 2031
Aleksandrs Vanins 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.
Squad3 Mar 2031
Words at Spartaks training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Davis Gabovs 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.
The dugout3 Mar 2031
When it matters, Davis Gabovs plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market3 Mar 2031
The Davis Gabovs talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Spartaks know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market3 Mar 2031
Spartaks put Louis Bassett up for sale
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Louis Bassett may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
In brief
- Market a squad player leaves for nothing
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Aleksandrs Vanins
- Squad Extra work for Kaspars Dubra at Spartaks