Steven Lang

Left Back - Liepaja
19 Jul 2043
Sunday
Process

Marked for Steven Lang

879 Edition

The Liepaja Post

1 Jun 2043
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Omar Bautista Gerez damages knee ligaments — 47 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 47 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

John Bennett is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Liepaja is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

14 seasons of Nils Balagušs

153 appearances across 14 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Liepaja know what they have.

In brief

Back issues
844 Edition

The Liepaja Post

29 Sep 2042
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Malte Ljungkull damages knee ligaments — 98 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 98 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Tempers go at Liepaja

Rodolphe Ekou 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.

Squad

Malte Ljungkull has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Liepaja will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

834 Edition

The Liepaja Post

21 Jul 2042
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Arturs Oss damages knee ligaments — 60 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 60 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

A fracture rules Vitalijs Cauna out for 46 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Liepaja will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

John Bennett attracts admirers

The name of John Bennett has come up in conversations Liepaja were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

In brief

829 Edition

The Liepaja Post

16 Jun 2042
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Arturs Oss damages knee ligaments — 95 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 95 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

A fracture rules Vitalijs Cauna out for 81 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Liepaja will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Jonathan Clark puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Liepaja, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Steven Lang says Liepaja went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Tempers go at Liepaja

Rodolphe Ekou 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.

Market

The shop window has Igors Ciganovs in it

Liepaja have let the market know Igors Ciganovs can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief