Marked for Krišs Kārkliņš
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad17 Jul 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jelgava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market17 Jul 2028
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Krišs Kārkliņš’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Igor Woś asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Steady
Market19 Jun 2028
Josep Nuorela hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Jelgava can pretend not to have heard.
Squad19 Jun 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jelgava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Jun 2028
“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.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Krišs Kārkliņš joins up with his country. Jelgava lose him for the window and would like him back in one piece.
Squad19 Jun 2028
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Jelgava that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
Player ratings19 Jun 2028
Successful dribbles: 10. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Steady
Squad12 Jun 2028
Dmitry Ivanov 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.
Squad12 Jun 2028
The medical room confirms 58 days on the sidelines for Vladimirs Savalnieks, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad12 Jun 2028
“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.
Market12 Jun 2028
Everyone has stopped pretending: Daugavpils will make the call about Olegs Stolcers this week. Jelgava have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Squad12 Jun 2028
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Aleksandrs Jagodinskis trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market12 Jun 2028
Jelgava have made Josep Nuorela available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Crisis
Player ratings22 May 2028
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market22 May 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Jelgava is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad22 May 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jelgava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match20 May 2028
0‑1 to Spartaks, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad22 May 2028
“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.
Squad22 May 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Vladimirs Savalnieks and Jelgava agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Steady
Market24 Apr 2028
Only the photograph left for Olegs Stolcers
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Olegs Stolcers will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Jelgava the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad24 Apr 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jelgava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Apr 2028
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Jelgava are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
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Upbeat
Market27 Mar 2028
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market27 Mar 2028
Olegs Stolcers has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Jelgava they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad27 Mar 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jelgava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match25 Mar 2028
Ventspils made Jelgava work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad27 Mar 2028
“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.
Player ratings27 Mar 2028
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings27 Mar 2028
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.02, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad27 Mar 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Roy Warholm and Jelgava agree another 4 years.
Player ratings27 Mar 2028
Defensive actions: 17, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
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Steady
Player ratings20 Mar 2028
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Dmitry Ivanov 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.
Player ratings20 Mar 2028
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.32, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match18 Mar 2028
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Roy Warholm 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.
Player ratings20 Mar 2028
A mark of 5.19 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
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Steady
Match28 Feb 2028
Jelgava up to position 3
21 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market28 Feb 2028
Olegs Stolcers has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Jelgava they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad28 Feb 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jelgava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Feb 2028
15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Market28 Feb 2028
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Krišs Kārkliņš’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad28 Feb 2028
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Jelgava would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
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Steady
Match31 Jan 2028
Jelgava up to position 3
21 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market31 Jan 2028
Metta/LU come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Jelgava did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market31 Jan 2028
Olegs Stolcers has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Jelgava they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad31 Jan 2028
18 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad31 Jan 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jelgava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market31 Jan 2028
The phone has started ringing about Vitalijs Vanins again, and this time the name on the line is Spartaks. Jelgava are listening politely and promising nothing.
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Steady
Match3 Jan 2028
Jelgava up to position 3
21 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad3 Jan 2028
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Jelgava have had the benefit of it.
Market3 Jan 2028
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Dmitry Ivanov 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.
Market3 Jan 2028
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Jelgava has been clear about where Maciej Bortniczuk stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad3 Jan 2028
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Jelgava would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
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Steady
Match6 Dec 2027
Jelgava up to position 3
21 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Dmitry Ivanov 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 Dec 2027
“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.
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Steady
Squad15 Nov 2027
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Jelgava will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Roy Warholm 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.
Squad15 Nov 2027
A season on the outside for Mateo Aguilar
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Jelgava has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
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Steady
Match8 Nov 2027
Jelgava are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 21 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad8 Nov 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jesús Cortéz and Jelgava agree another 3 years.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Dmitry Ivanov 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.
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Steady
Match11 Oct 2027
Jelgava are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 21 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Dmitry Ivanov 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.
Loan watch11 Oct 2027
“I watch every Jelgava game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Daugavpils runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad11 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Roy Warholm
“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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Jelgava that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
Squad11 Oct 2027
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Jelgava that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
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Steady
Match13 Sep 2027
Jelgava are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 21 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Dmitry Ivanov 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vitalijs Kamess, and the manager let it.
Market13 Sep 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Krišs Kārkliņš signs something — a contract at Jelgava or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Market13 Sep 2027
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Aleksandrs Tarasovs leaves Jelgava the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
Market13 Sep 2027
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Igors Tarasovs leaves Jelgava the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
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Steady
Market6 Sep 2027
Only the photograph left for Kota Sanada
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Kota Sanada will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Jelgava the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad6 Sep 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jelgava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad6 Sep 2027
“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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Krišs Kārkliņš joins up with his country. Jelgava lose him for the window and would like him back in one piece.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Marcis Kamess joins up with his country. Jelgava lose him for the window and would like him back in one piece.
Market6 Sep 2027
The clock runs on Adolfo Reynaga's contract
10 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
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Steady
Match16 Aug 2027
Jelgava are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 21 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Market16 Aug 2027
Jelgava say no — this time
The offer from Daugavpils for Gatis Fertovs was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Dmitry Ivanov 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
24 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad16 Aug 2027
The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Vitalijs Fertovs, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad16 Aug 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Vladimirs Savalnieks commits to Jelgava for another 3 years.
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Steady
Match19 Jul 2027
Jelgava up to position 3
21 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market19 Jul 2027
Only the photograph left for Gatis Fertovs
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Gatis Fertovs will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Jelgava the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Roberts Vanins 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.
Market19 Jul 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Jelgava have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad19 Jul 2027
The medical room confirms 30 days on the sidelines for Mory Cissé, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad19 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Vitalijs Kamess
“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.
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Steady
Match21 Jun 2027
Jelgava up to position 3
21 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad21 Jun 2027
“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.
Market21 Jun 2027
Metta/LU come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Jelgava did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad21 Jun 2027
The medical room confirms 40 days on the sidelines for Jesús Cortéz, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Dmitry Ivanov 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.
Squad21 Jun 2027
20 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
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Steady
Squad14 Jun 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jelgava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market14 Jun 2027
The phone has started ringing about Aleksandrs Kamess again, and this time the name on the line is Liepaja. Jelgava are listening politely and promising nothing.
Market14 Jun 2027
The Gatis Fertovs conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Metta/LU will make the call about Gatis Fertovs this week. Jelgava have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
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Steady
Match24 May 2027
Jelgava up to position 2
18 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Player ratings24 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jelgava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings24 May 2027
Marked 9.16 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match22 May 2027
A 2‑0 win over Liepaja, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings24 May 2027
Marked 8.72 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad24 May 2027
“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.
Player ratings24 May 2027
A defender's afternoon for Dmitry Ivanov
Defensive actions: 18. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad24 May 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Gatis Savalnieks and Jelgava agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Crisis
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match26 Apr 2027
Jelgava refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 11 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Match24 Apr 2027
No end in sight to Jelgava's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Jelgava has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Dmitry Ivanov 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.
Match24 Apr 2027
1‑2 to Daugavpils, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.16, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad26 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Krišs Kārkliņš, and the manager let it.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Marked 5.64, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Gatis Fertovs has had enough of the bench
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Jelgava will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad19 Apr 2027
Dmitry Ivanov 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
“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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Gatis Fertovs and Jelgava agree another 4 years.
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Upbeat
Match29 Mar 2027
Jelgava up to position 1
9 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad29 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jesús Cortéz commits to Jelgava for another 2 years.
Squad29 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jelgava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match27 Mar 2027
Spartaks left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad29 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Krišs Kārkliņš, and the manager let it.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Marcis Kamess 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 Marcis Kamess trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market29 Mar 2027
The name of Krišs Kārkliņš keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Jelgava say nothing, which says plenty.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
5.47 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad1 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jelgava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Mar 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Roy Warholm and Jelgava agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad1 Mar 2027
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Jelgava has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
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Uneasy
Market1 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad1 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jelgava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Feb 2027
18 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Jelgava know it.
Squad1 Feb 2027
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Jelgava has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Market1 Feb 2027
The name of Krišs Kārkliņš keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Jelgava say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Market4 Jan 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market4 Jan 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Jelgava have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad4 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jelgava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market4 Jan 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Jelgava will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Jelgava, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market4 Jan 2027
The name of Krišs Kārkliņš keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Jelgava say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Market7 Dec 2026
“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 Jelgava, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jelgava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Olegs Stolcers commits to Jelgava for another 3 years.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jelgava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Roberts Vanins, and the manager let it.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Liepaja to sit and watch. I want to come back to Jelgava and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.
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Uneasy
Market12 Oct 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Jelgava know it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jelgava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Jelgava, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Oleg Polivoda commits to Jelgava for another 3 years.
Market12 Oct 2026
The name of Krišs Kārkliņš keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Jelgava say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Market28 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Hermes Palomino 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.
Loan watch28 Sep 2026
“I watch every Jelgava game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Metta/LU runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jelgava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Liepaja to sit and watch. I want to come back to Jelgava and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Market14 Sep 2026
The name of Krišs Kārkliņš keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Jelgava say nothing, which says plenty.