The Daugavpils Gazette
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
No thanks: Rodolphe Ekou rejects the move
Daugavpils had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Liepaja, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ziad Ouled-Haj-M'hand 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 Daugavpils this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
Alvis Oss steps up from the Daugavpils academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Alvis Oss has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Daugavpils promote Arturs Jagodinskis from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Arturs Jagodinskis has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Daugavpils promote Janis Ciganovs from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Janis Ciganovs has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Gatis Dubra joins the Daugavpils first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Gatis Dubra is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Daugavpils training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ervīns Piņaskins is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
A loan move for Afonso Leite is in the works
Daugavpils have made the call to Liepaja. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Daugavpils try to borrow Shehu Ogu
Skonto have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
In brief
- Squad Ziad Ouled-Haj-M'hand remains an outsider
- Squad An aura around Ziad Ouled-Haj-M'hand