The Liepaja Post
Market10 Aug 2026
Rodolphe Ekou turns Metta/LU down
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Bart Straalman 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 Liepaja this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Liepaja rebuffed over Nemanja Motika
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Olimpija Ljubljana have kept their man, and Liepaja go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Marcis Dubra joins the Liepaja first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marcis Dubra is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Eduards Fertovs joins the Liepaja first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Eduards Fertovs is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Liepaja promote Arturs Gabovs from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Arturs Gabovs has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Amadou Traoré signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Amadou Traoré commits to Liepaja for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Liepaja training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Amadou Traoré 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The formation has left Imamu Bala behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Liepaja will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
In brief
- Transfer targets A loan move for Adrian Mazilu is in the works
- Transfer targets A loan move for Arturs Gabovs is in the works
- The dugout Amadou Traoré knocks on the manager's door