Daniel Çuli

Goalkeeper - Zalgiris
21 Sep 2028
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72 Edition

The Zalgiris Courier

13 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match13 Dec 2027

Zalgiris refuse to drop out of the race

Position 2, 33 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Match12 Dec 2027

A European lesson for Zalgiris

1‑3 against Besiktas. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.

Squad13 Dec 2027

8 saves: Carlos Olses was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Squad13 Dec 2027

Nikola Petković is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.27 with 16 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad13 Dec 2027

Words exchanged at Zalgiris

Bryan Teixeira 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.

Squad13 Dec 2027

Abdulbari Nura gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Abdulbari Nura has just signed for Zalgiris, and for once the answer mattered.

The dugout13 Dec 2027

Mantas Vaitkunas: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Market13 Dec 2027

A long bet from Zalgiris on Jay McEvoy

He is 19, and nobody at Zalgiris signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

The dugout13 Dec 2027

Bryan Teixeira has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Zalgiris 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.

In brief

Back issues
71 Edition

The Zalgiris Courier

6 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets6 Dec 2027

Abdulbari Nura turns down Zalgiris

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad6 Dec 2027

A falling-out at Zalgiris

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

Squad6 Dec 2027

Nikola Petković 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.

Squad6 Dec 2027

Deividas Šešplaukis signs on for more

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

Squad6 Dec 2027

Paul Roussel is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Paul Roussel has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

Market6 Dec 2027

A long bet from Zalgiris on Daniel Çuli

He is 19, and nobody at Zalgiris signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

The dugout6 Dec 2027

Grigore Turda 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 Grigore Turda is on it.

Market6 Dec 2027

No place for Martynas Šetkus in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Martynas Šetkus has his answer from Zalgiris; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

The dugout6 Dec 2027

Vincentas Šarkauskas 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.

In brief