Marked for Aidas Satkus
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad4 Jan 2027
Paulius Paulauskas 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Aidas Satkus out for 41 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Josh Robinson and Utenis agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad4 Jan 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
The name of Arvydas Lasickas has come up in conversations Utenis were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market4 Jan 2027
Still no offer on the table, and Josh Robinson’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad28 Dec 2026
Paulius Paulauskas damages knee ligaments — 36 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 36 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Aidas Satkus out for 48 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Utenis
Darius Jankauskas 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.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Aidas Satkus out for 55 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.
Market21 Dec 2026
“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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Utenis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrius Slavickas 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.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Utenis
Vykintas Simkus 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Utenis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aidas Jankauskas 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Aidas Satkus 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 Aidas Satkus trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Market16 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Utenis
Vykintas Simkus 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Andrius Slavickas 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.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Tomas Lasickas is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Suduva training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Amadou Sabo 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Suduva
Aidas Satkus 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
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Squad
Too much change too quickly at Suduva
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
Karolis Girdvainis damages knee ligaments — 31 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 31 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.
Squad19 Oct 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 Utenis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Utenis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marko Capan 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Utenis
Vykintas Simkus 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
Words at Utenis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aidas Jankauskas 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match12 Aug 2026
Suduva out of the cup
Stumbras ended it 1‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Ignas Plūkas is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Ignas Plūkas: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A chastening introduction for Tomas Lasickas — 5.62
It is a hard way to meet a crowd. Marked 5.62 on the day he was handed the shirt, and the important thing now is what the next one looks like.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Amadou Sabo 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 Suduva this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Suduva training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Markas Beneta 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.59, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Amadou Sabo misses from twelve yards
It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. 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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Crisis
Match12 Aug 2026
Utenis out of the cup
Zalgiris ended it 1‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 9 of the 30 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A chastening introduction for Arnas Girdvainis — 5.49
It is a hard way to meet a crowd. Marked 5.49 on the day he was handed the shirt, and the important thing now is what the next one looks like.
Market17 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad17 Aug 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 Utenis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Darius Jankauskas, and the manager let it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mantas Dubickas commits to Utenis for another 3 years.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Aidas Jankauskas dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 10. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
“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 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Karolis Girdvainis and Utenis agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 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 Utenis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Utenis
Vykintas Simkus 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Edgaras Simkus commits to Utenis for another 2 years.
Market3 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Aidas Satkus again, and this time the name on the line is Suduva. Utenis are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Linas Klimavicius 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.