The Spartaks Post
Match16 Aug 2027
Spartaks up to position 2
19 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Marios Ilia 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Marcis Rugins 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Too much change too quickly at Spartaks
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Nikoloz Shapatava signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nikoloz Shapatava commits to Spartaks for another 2 years.
Market16 Aug 2027
Spartaks add cover with Nikoloz Shapatava
It is the least glamorous business a club does and the reason seasons do not collapse in February. Nikoloz Shapatava is here for the weeks when three men are injured and somebody still has to play.
In brief
- Market Aleksandrs Fertovs leaves for nothing
- Market Gatis Jurkovskis leaves for nothing