Marked for Dariuš Stankevičius
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market21 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Dariuš Stankevičius will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Zalgiris the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Bryan Teixeira 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 Sep 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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From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market14 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Gustas Jarusevičius will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Zalgiris the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Dariuš Stankevičius 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.
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 Zalgiris this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Zalgiris training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Grigore Turda 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.
Squad14 Sep 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Nikolay Minkov 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 Nikolay Minkov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.