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Edition
The Ventspils Gazette
27 Dec 2032
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad27 Dec 2032
A knee injury of the worst kind for Gatis Dubra
36 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ventspils lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad27 Dec 2032
A row about effort at Ventspils
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ruslan Tkachenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad27 Dec 2032
Words exchanged at Ventspils
Pavels Stolcers and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
In brief
- The dugout Adama Diakité gets picked when it counts
- The dugout Thomas Ude knocks on the manager's door
- Squad Lessons booked for Manuel García at Ventspils