Marked for Arturs Oss
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad13 Sep 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nikita Cauna and Spartaks agree another 3 years.
Squad13 Sep 2027
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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Arturs Oss, and the manager let it.
Market13 Sep 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Kristaps Ikaunieks’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad13 Sep 2027
A season on the outside for Arlis Shala
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Spartaks has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Market13 Sep 2027
No fee and no drama: Arlis Shala has signed at Spartaks, and the wage bill is the only line that moved.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad24 May 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Spartaks may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad24 May 2027
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.
Squad24 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vladimirs Jagodinskis, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad5 Apr 2027
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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Arturs Oss
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Spartaks will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad4 Jan 2027
Aleksandrs Stolcers 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Spartaks have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market4 Jan 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Nikita Vanins has his answer from Spartaks; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Igors Cauna and Spartaks agree another 1 years.
Loan watch5 Oct 2026
“I watch every Spartaks game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Metta/LU runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.