The Ventspils Gazette
Squad28 Jun 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Kaspars Oss
18 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ventspils lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market28 Jun 2027
Kristaps Tarasovs 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 Ventspils can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Words at Ventspils training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jesús Molina 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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Yilber Aponzá 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 watch28 Jun 2027
Alvis Vanins wants to come home
“I did not go to Daugavpils to sit and watch. I want to come back to Ventspils and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 21 matches say the rest.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Alvis Stolcers signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alvis Stolcers and Ventspils agree another 3 years.