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The Spartaks Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market10 Aug 2026

Ventspils come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Spartaks did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Kristaps Ikaunieks signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kristaps Ikaunieks commits to Spartaks for another 3 years.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Spartaks

Kristaps Ikaunieks 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 targets10 Aug 2026

Door shut on Rodolphe Ekou

Spartaks asked and Liepaja said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Words at Spartaks training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alvis Vanins 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

Daugavpils watching Marcis Vanins

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Spartaks have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

A loan move for Iļja Korotkovs is in the works

Spartaks have made the call to Liepaja. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Spartaks try to borrow Daniel Afful

Egnatia Rrogozhinë have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

The dugout10 Aug 2026

Kristaps Ikaunieks 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 Kristaps Ikaunieks trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

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The Spartaks Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market3 Aug 2026

Pavels Rugins 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 Spartaks can pretend not to have heard.

Squad3 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Spartaks

Kristaps Ikaunieks and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Torpedo-BelAZ tell Spartaks: Steven Alfred is not for sale

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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Metta/LU join the queue for Kaspars Jagodinskis

Add another name to the list: Metta/LU have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Kaspars Jagodinskis. The answer from Spartaks has not changed — yet.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Igors Fertovs stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Igors Fertovs and Spartaks agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout3 Aug 2026

Kristaps Ikaunieks knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Spartaks, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief