The Spartaks Post
Squad3 Aug 2026
Janis Fertovs damages knee ligaments — 45 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 45 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Raivis 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 Aug 2026
Roberts Dubra 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Metta/LU watching Raivis Zjuzins
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Spartaks have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Eduards Vanins stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Eduards Vanins and Spartaks agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market3 Aug 2026
No place for Raivis Kamess in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Raivis Kamess has his answer from Spartaks; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
In brief
- Market Nobody at Spartaks has picked up the phone to Eduards Vanins
- Market Spartaks put Kaspars Cauna up for sale