Marked for Killyan Arragain
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market21 Aug 2028
Tom Hill 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 The request is on a desk at Utenis, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Edvinas Slavickas is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Words exchanged at Utenis
Tom Hill 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.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Ignas Dubickas 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.
Market21 Aug 2028
Everyone has stopped pretending: Siauliai will make the call about Killyan Arragain this week. Utenis have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
A loan enquiry to Kauno Zalgiris: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
A loan enquiry to Zalgiris: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
A loan enquiry to Kauno Zalgiris: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
Suduva 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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Uneasy
Market7 Aug 2028
“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.
Market7 Aug 2028
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Siauliai waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Utenis is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Transfer targets7 Aug 2028
$340.0K settles it between the clubs for Nemanja Mihajlović
Zalgiris have accepted the money. What Utenis do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
The dugout7 Aug 2028
This is not rotation. Ignas Dubickas has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Utenis is pretending otherwise.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Tom Hill 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 Utenis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Ignas Dubickas 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.
Squad7 Aug 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Tadej Trajkovski and Utenis agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets7 Aug 2028
A loan enquiry to Kauno Zalgiris: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Utenis will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
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Uneasy
Squad24 Jul 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Aidas Klimavicius
20 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Utenis lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market24 Jul 2028
Tom Hill 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 Utenis can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets24 Jul 2028
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Utenis have done the hard part with Zalgiris, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Market24 Jul 2028
Utenis say no — this time
The offer from Stumbras for Killyan Arragain was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad24 Jul 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Darius Vaitkunas and Utenis agree another 3 years.
Squad24 Jul 2028
A falling-out at Utenis
Ignas Dubickas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market24 Jul 2028
The Darius Dapkus conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Siauliai will make the call about Darius Dapkus this week. Utenis have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Squad24 Jul 2028
A row about effort at Utenis
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yomi Ayodeji was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout24 Jul 2028
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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Uneasy
Market10 Jul 2028
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Utenis people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Squad10 Jul 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Aidas Klimavicius
34 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Utenis lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 21 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market10 Jul 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Utenis can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Tempers go at Utenis
Ignas Dubickas 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.
Transfer targets10 Jul 2028
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Kauno Zalgiris have kept their man, and Utenis go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad10 Jul 2028
A row about effort at Utenis
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yomi Ayodeji was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets10 Jul 2028
Kauno Zalgiris 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.
Transfer targets10 Jul 2028
Zalgiris 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match3 Jul 2028
Every point is an argument now for Utenis
Position 7 and 10 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Utenis will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market3 Jul 2028
“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.
Market3 Jul 2028
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Utenis people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Transfer targets3 Jul 2028
The clubs have shaken hands with Trakai; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Squad3 Jul 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Utenis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market3 Jul 2028
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Utenis will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Transfer targets3 Jul 2028
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.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Darius Dapkus 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match8 May 2028
Every point is an argument now for Utenis
Position 7 and 7 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Match6 May 2028
8 matches without a win for Utenis
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Utenis are no longer polite ones.
Squad8 May 2028
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 22 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market8 May 2028
“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.
The dugout8 May 2028
Ignas Dubickas faces a manager he fell out with
They have worked together before and it did not end well. Nobody at Utenis expects the new manager to have forgotten, least of all Ignas Dubickas.
Squad8 May 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Utenis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings8 May 2028
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout8 May 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ignas Dubickas, and the manager let it.
Squad8 May 2028
A row about effort at Utenis
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kleidi Xhani was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Steady
Squad22 Nov 2027
Ignas Dubickas damages knee ligaments — 118 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 118 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.
Match22 Nov 2027
Utenis sink to position 6
13 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad22 Nov 2027
81 days out for Ilias Melkas after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Utenis will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Killyan Arragain is the young player of the season
Not a month, not a run of form — a whole season of being the best 19-year-old anybody in this division could put on a pitch. This is the honour that gets mentioned for the rest of his career.
Market22 Nov 2027
“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.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Tempers go at Utenis
Ignas Dubickas 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match2 Aug 2027
Utenis are in real trouble now
Position 6, 13 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad2 Aug 2027
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Utenis will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market2 Aug 2027
“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 Utenis, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets2 Aug 2027
$140.0K on the table at Zalgiris. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad2 Aug 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Utenis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ilias Melkas commits to Utenis for another 2 years.
Market2 Aug 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Transfer targets2 Aug 2027
A loan enquiry to Zalgiris: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets2 Aug 2027
A loan enquiry to Suduva: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match5 Jul 2027
Utenis sink to position 6
13 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market5 Jul 2027
“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.
Market5 Jul 2027
Suduva come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Utenis did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
The dugout5 Jul 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Utenis may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad5 Jul 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Utenis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
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.
The dugout5 Jul 2027
“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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
The young player of the month award goes to a 19-year-old at Utenis who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Utenis can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market28 Jun 2027
“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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Killyan Arragain is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
The offer went to Zalgiris this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad28 Jun 2027
A falling-out at Utenis
Zarija Lambulić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 35 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Utenis is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
A loan enquiry to Kauno Zalgiris: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
Suduva 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 dugout28 Jun 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Utenis, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Match14 Jun 2027
Utenis finish in position 6
13 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.
Market14 Jun 2027
“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 targets14 Jun 2027
The deal with Kauno Zalgiris is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
$140.0K on the table at Zalgiris. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Tempers go at Utenis
Zarija Lambulić 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.
Match12 Jun 2027
Zalgiris made Utenis work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
A mark of 7.59, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Rokas Novikovas on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Utenis told Killyan Arragain something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
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Crisis
Match7 Jun 2027
Utenis sink to position 7
10 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
No sign of nerves from Killyan Arragain at 19 — 7.67
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Killyan Arragain did not need any: 7.67, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market7 Jun 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Utenis can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Jun 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Utenis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match5 Jun 2027
A bad afternoon for Utenis against Atlantas
1‑3 to Atlantas, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
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.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Darius Dapkus did the work nobody counts — 6.82
11 combined actions and 6.82. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
“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.
Market7 Jun 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Utenis, another week without a signature from Harrison Holgate.
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Uneasy
Match22 May 2027
No end in sight to Utenis's wait for a win
13 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Utenis has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings24 May 2027
Rokas Sernas beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad24 May 2027
Words exchanged at Utenis
Tom Hill 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.
The dugout24 May 2027
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Christophe Ackah will call it something else in private.
Player ratings24 May 2027
6.98, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Utenis had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout24 May 2027
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The dugout24 May 2027
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Squad24 May 2027
At 19 he was the best of everybody his age in the division for one weekend. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.
Match22 May 2027
Point won or two lost for Utenis?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Stumbras? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
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Crisis
Match15 May 2027
No end in sight to Utenis's wait for a win
12 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Utenis has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad17 May 2027
Tempers go at Utenis
Zarija Lambulić 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.
Squad17 May 2027
The medical room confirms 36 days on the sidelines for Tom Hill, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match15 May 2027
A bad afternoon for Utenis against Suduva
1‑3 to Suduva, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout17 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Zarija Lambulić
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Looking ahead17 May 2027
Utenis face Stumbras in the game that matters most
Two sides from the bottom of the table, three points, and an afternoon that will be described afterwards as a relegation decider by whoever loses it.
The dugout17 May 2027
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad17 May 2027
A Utenis teenager takes the young player award
Killyan Arragain is 19, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.
Player ratings17 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Uneasy
Match1 May 2027
10 matches without a win for Utenis
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Utenis are no longer polite ones.
Squad3 May 2027
A falling-out at Utenis
Zarija Lambulić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 May 2027
Darius Vaitkunas 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. Utenis will try very hard not to make too much of it.
Match1 May 2027
Late, late show earns Utenis a point
Minute 92, against Kauno Zalgiris, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
Squad3 May 2027
Tom Hill makes the team of the month
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Match1 May 2027
It needed Tadas Cernych to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Kauno Zalgiris, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout3 May 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Rokas Novikovas was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Utenis dressing room was either.
Squad3 May 2027
Killyan Arragain, 19, is the weekend’s best young player
Measured against every other kid in the division and first among them. The senior award is where Utenis would like this to lead.
The dugout3 May 2027
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
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Uneasy
Match24 Apr 2027
The wait goes on for Utenis
9 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Words exchanged at Utenis
Zarija Lambulić 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.
Match24 Apr 2027
Late, late show earns Utenis a point
Minute 93, against Zalgiris, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
Match26 Apr 2027
Utenis at the halfway mark
Half the programme played, position 7, 4 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
“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.
Match24 Apr 2027
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 13. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad26 Apr 2027
At 19 he was the best of everybody his age in the division for one weekend. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Zarija Lambulić out for 95 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Utenis will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Utenis
Zarija Lambulić 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Killyan Arragain commits to Utenis for another 3 years.
Market7 Dec 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Utenis, another week without a signature from Tom Hill.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Tadas Simkus moves up the pecking order
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Utenis than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
Market7 Dec 2026
Experience through the door at Utenis
Ilias Melkas arrives at 37 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Zarija Lambulić out for 102 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Utenis will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Killyan Arragain arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Killyan Arragain has, at Utenis, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Utenis
Zarija Lambulić 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.