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Marked for Simone Albè

52 Edition

The Trakai Courier

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad26 Jul 2027

Saulius Mikoliunas breaks a bone — 109 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 109 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The dugout26 Jul 2027

Edvinas Lasickas: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Trakai have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Transfer targets26 Jul 2027

Trakai rebuffed over Danil Ladokha

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. SKA Khabarovsk have kept their man, and Trakai go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad26 Jul 2027

Words at Trakai training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edvinas Lasickas 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.

Transfer targets26 Jul 2027

A loan move for György Komáromi is in the works

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

The dugout26 Jul 2027

Andréa Vennettilli 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.

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48 Edition

The Trakai Courier

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market28 Jun 2027

Darius Eliosius 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 The request is on a desk at Trakai, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets28 Jun 2027

Door shut on Žiga Repas

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

Squad28 Jun 2027

Words exchanged at Trakai

Savely Nikiforov 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 targets28 Jun 2027

A loan move for Amine Benchaib is in the works

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

Squad28 Jun 2027

Words at Trakai training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edvinas Lasickas 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.

The dugout28 Jun 2027

No hiding place for Lukas Sernas

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lukas Sernas, and the manager let it.

Squad28 Jun 2027

“I want to play”: Andréa Vennettilli speaks

“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.

Squad28 Jun 2027

Simone Albè still has not settled

A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Trakai would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.

Market28 Jun 2027

Still no ink between Trakai and Suren Harutyunyan

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Trakai, another week without a signature from Suren Harutyunyan.

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45 Edition

The Trakai Courier

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market7 Jun 2027

Arvydas Jankauskas asks to leave Trakai

“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.

Transfer targets7 Jun 2027

Trakai rebuffed over Giorgi Gagua

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. DAC Dunajska Streda have kept their man, and Trakai go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match5 Jun 2027

Trakai come up short against Kauno Zalgiris

Kauno Zalgiris left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market7 Jun 2027

Zalgiris join the queue for Saulius Klimavicius

Add another name to the list: Zalgiris have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Saulius Klimavicius. The answer from Trakai has not changed — yet.

Player ratings7 Jun 2027

Ninety minutes of Lukas Kazlauskas at his very best

Marked 8.10. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Trakai.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Modestas Dubickas is the division's best young player this month

At 21 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. Trakai will try very hard not to make too much of it.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Simone Albè signs on for more

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

The dugout7 Jun 2027

Tadas Novikovas answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Transfer targets7 Jun 2027

Trakai try to borrow Veljko Jelenković

Olimpija Ljubljana 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.

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44 Edition

The Trakai Courier

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings31 May 2027

Age has not caught Jean-Pascal Fontaine yet — 8.10

At 38 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.10 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Player ratings31 May 2027

Both jobs done by Vikintas Jankauskas — 7.78

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 14 actions, 7.78, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

Squad31 May 2027

A move Piotr Holcel would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Piotr Holcel is living that version at Trakai, and it tends to show in the first month.

Match29 May 2027

Trakai get the job done against Utenis

A 1‑0 win over Utenis, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad31 May 2027

Modestas Kuklys 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.

Squad31 May 2027

Tempers go at Trakai

Lukas Sernas 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.

Market31 May 2027

A long bet from Trakai on Piotr Holcel

He is 20, and nobody at Trakai signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Squad31 May 2027

Simone Albè signs on for more

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

The dugout31 May 2027

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Tadas Novikovas kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

In brief