The Jelgava Sentinel
Squad8 Mar 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Georginio Malen
17 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Jelgava lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad8 Mar 2027
41 days out for Aleksandrs Savalnieks after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Jelgava will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Jelgava lose Kalu Nweke
72 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Chuks Faruk wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Jelgava can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
5 academy graduates step up at Jelgava
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Match6 Mar 2027
Jelgava see off Daugavpils
Three points for Jelgava, 2‑1 the final word against Daugavpils in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Market8 Mar 2027
One of our own: Marcis Oss joins the Jelgava first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marcis Oss is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Mar 2027
One of our own: Aleksandrs Fertovs joins the Jelgava first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Aleksandrs Fertovs is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Mar 2027
One of our own: Marcis Fertovs joins the Jelgava first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marcis Fertovs is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Kaspars Oss joins the Jelgava first team
- Player ratings Gatis Fertovs was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Davis Dubra