Mitchell Bates

Defensive Midfielder - Siauliai
10 Dec 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Mitchell Bates

115 Edition

The Siauliai Gazette

9 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Mitchell Bates puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Siauliai, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tomás Jakos signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Tomás Jakos and Siauliai agree another 3 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Siauliai

Tomás Jakos 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.

In brief

Back issues
28 Edition

The Siauliai Gazette

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Dāvis Ikaunieks damages knee ligaments — 29 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 29 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Tomás Jakos breaks a bone — 141 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 141 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Matthieu Ezikian 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 Siauliai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief