The Liepaja Post
Squad6 Aug 2029
Tempers go at Liepaja
Marvin Martins 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.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Words at Liepaja training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Danijel Petković 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.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Mory Cissé signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mory Cissé commits to Liepaja for another 4 years.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Henry Ezeonye is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Henry Ezeonye has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
The dugout6 Aug 2029
Vjačeslavs Isajevs 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.
The dugout6 Aug 2029
When it matters, Marvin Martins 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.
Market6 Aug 2029
Liepaja and Ingars Pūlis are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
The dugout6 Aug 2029
Amar Haïdara knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Amar Haïdara trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market6 Aug 2029
Nobody at Liepaja has picked up the phone to Arturs Zjuzins
24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
In brief
- Market Olegs Stolcers leaves for nothing
- Market Alexis Theodoridis placed on the list
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Andriy Korobenko