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165 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

24 Sep 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad24 Sep 2029

Moustapha Diaw 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 Ventspils this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market24 Sep 2029

Olegs Cauna wants more than Ventspils are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad24 Sep 2029

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.

Squad24 Sep 2029

Ventspils lose Sadeeq Abdulahi

52 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

The dugout24 Sep 2029

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The dugout24 Sep 2029

Akin Odimayo gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Akin Odimayo is on it.

The dugout24 Sep 2029

The manager makes an example of Tadej Bonaca

“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.

Market24 Sep 2029

Talks stall between Ventspils and Gatis Oss

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

The dugout24 Sep 2029

Pedro Vieira has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Pedro Vieira has written the date down.

In brief

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125 Edition

The Ventspils Gazette

18 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match12 Dec 2028

Ventspils do the business in Europe

0‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Ventspils came through the finding-out well against IMT.

Squad18 Dec 2028

Reinis Reinholds stands alone

8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Match12 Dec 2028

The wait goes on for Ventspils

7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad18 Dec 2028

Tempers go at Ventspils

Alvis Jaunzems 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.

Squad18 Dec 2028

A row about effort at Ventspils

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lawal Muritala was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout18 Dec 2028

No hiding place for Harry Evans

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Harry Evans, and the manager let it.

Player ratings18 Dec 2028

Alvis Jaunzems beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout18 Dec 2028

No place for Aaron Olanare on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Ventspils pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

The dugout18 Dec 2028

Akin Odimayo gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Akin Odimayo is on it.

In brief

  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • Squad A first team debut at 16 for Gatis Oss
  • Player ratings A defender's afternoon for Akin Odimayo