The Ventspils Gazette
Squad6 Dec 2027
Words exchanged at Ventspils
Mikel Kaloshi and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Alvis Jaunzems 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.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Igors Oss stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Igors Oss and Ventspils agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout6 Dec 2027
When it matters, Raphael Ayagwa plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Victor Ikechukwu moves up the pecking order
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Ventspils than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
The dugout6 Dec 2027
Reinis Reinholds gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
- Market Ventspils shop where it costs nothing
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Fortune Bassey