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The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Liepaja may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad12 Oct 2026
16 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Liepaja
Marvin Martins 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.
Boardroom12 Oct 2026
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Market12 Oct 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marcis Jagodinskis is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market12 Oct 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Kaspars Kamess 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.
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 Liepaja, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad12 Oct 2026
4 Liepaja players away with their countries
The training ground goes quiet for a fortnight. 4 men have gone off to be somebody else’s players, and the manager is left with the ones nobody has called.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
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.
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Squad5 Oct 2026
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
16 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Liepaja training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andriy Korobenko 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jānis Grīnbergs and Liepaja agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages swallow 86% of the Liepaja income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Nikita Saltykov is on it.
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Squad28 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 Liepaja this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
9 new faces, and Liepaja are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
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Market21 Sep 2026
Liepaja say no — this time
The offer from Daugavpils for Iļja Korotkovs 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Liepaja
Marvin Martins and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Rodolphe Ekou gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Rodolphe Ekou is on it.
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Squad14 Sep 2026
The medical room confirms 48 days on the sidelines for Ingars Pūlis, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market14 Sep 2026
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Ventspils moved on, Artūrs Karašausks reports back to Liepaja, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market14 Sep 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Aleksandrs Jagodinskis is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market14 Sep 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Arturs Oss has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Andriy Korobenko falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Daugavpils to sit and watch. I want to come back to Liepaja and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Amadou Traoré 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
His past walked in ahead of him. Players who have been where he has been get a hearing in a dressing room before they have earned one, and he has it for as long as his form does.
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Market7 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Liepaja close the window on a squad of their own making
16 in and 2 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Market7 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Jānis Grīnbergs to Ventspils has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Liepaja with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Market7 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad7 Sep 2026
44 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Market7 Sep 2026
The name of Artūrs Karašausks has come up in conversations Liepaja were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ingars Pūlis, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
International break empties Liepaja
6 call-ups is a compliment to the squad and a headache for the man running it. He will get them back in a fortnight, tired, in various states of repair.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Iļja Korotkovs commits to Liepaja for another 2 years.
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Market31 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Ventspils waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Liepaja is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market31 Aug 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Liepaja say no — this time
The offer from Metta/LU for Rodolphe Ekou 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Liepaja asked and Viktoria Plzen said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad31 Aug 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 Liepaja this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Liepaja
9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
A loan move for Dušan Jovanović is in the works
Liepaja have made the call to Radnicki Nis. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Market31 Aug 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Liepaja will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
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Match19 Aug 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Rodolphe Ekou obliged against Ventspils. 2‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Liepaja.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market24 Aug 2026
Liepaja say no — this time
The offer from Tammeka for Moustapha Diaw 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Rodolphe Ekou at 21 — 7.84
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Rodolphe Ekou did not need any: 7.84, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market24 Aug 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 Liepaja, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Liepaja
Marvin Martins and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Metta/LU have kept their man, and Liepaja go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Nikita Saltykov has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
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Match12 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Liepaja
A 2‑0 win over Metta/LU, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Market17 Aug 2026
Slutsk come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Liepaja did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Rodolphe Ekou, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.87
A mark of 7.87 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
No thanks: Duje Korač rejects the move
Liepaja had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Rudes, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Iļja Korotkovs has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Liepaja
Marvin Martins 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Liepaja asked and Gomel said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Market10 Aug 2026
Sokol come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Liepaja did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
No thanks: John Dembe rejects the move
Liepaja had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Sigma Olomouc, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad10 Aug 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 Liepaja this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Jelgava have kept their man, and Liepaja go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Raivis Laizans 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marcis Ciganovs 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Raivis Laizans has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Beknaz Almazbekov arrived with a record at a bigger club than this one, and the room has treated him accordingly. The young ones watch him train; the senior ones watch to see whether it lasts.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A new face in his position and a shirt he thought he owned suddenly up for discussion. Liepaja have promised nothing, which is what clubs promise at this stage.
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Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Slutsk have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Djibril Guèye. The answer from Liepaja has not changed — yet.
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Danijel Petković commits to Liepaja for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Andriy Korobenko falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.