The Metta/LU Gazette
Squad9 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Sadiq Saleh
16 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Metta/LU lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Idriss Ashiru gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Idriss Ashiru has just signed for Metta/LU, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Metta/LU
Olufemi Kayode 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.
Boardroom9 Nov 2026
Kristaps Rugins will join Metta/LU for nothing
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Kristaps Rugins has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Metta/LU have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Gianluca Scremin 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
One of our own: Eduards Laizans joins the Metta/LU first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Eduards Laizans 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 Metta/LU buy the years ahead of Idriss Ashiru
- The dugout Aivars Emsis has become a man the manager trusts
- Market Talks stall between Metta/LU and Idriss Ashiru
- The dugout The manager comes out for Ivo Minkevičs