The Jelgava Sentinel
Market10 Aug 2026
Kaspars Gabovs 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 Jelgava can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Pavels Laizans stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Pavels Laizans and Jelgava agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Jelgava
Néstor Canelón 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Mathias Blårud 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Néstor Canelón has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Jelgava know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Market10 Aug 2026
Jelgava and Vadim Zubavlenko are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
In brief
- Market No place for Gatis Cauna in the plan
- Market Jelgava bring in an old head