Marked for Edgaras Mikoliunas
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match5 Apr 2027
Every point is an argument now for Atlantas
Position 8 and 3 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.
Match31 Mar 2027
Kauno Zalgiris ended it 1‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad5 Apr 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Atlantas may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
The terraces5 Apr 2027
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 7 of the 32 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Market5 Apr 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 The request is on a desk at Atlantas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match3 Apr 2027
4 matches without a win for Atlantas
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Atlantas are no longer polite ones.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Justas Barauskas 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.
Match3 Apr 2027
Atlantas are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Match3 Apr 2027
Linas Dapkus scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Zalgiris, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
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Crisis
Market8 Mar 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 The request is on a desk at Atlantas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Maxim Druchik and Atlantas agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Rokas Novikovas 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.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
6 academy players handed senior numbers at Atlantas
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Match6 Mar 2027
Rokas Novikovas scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Siauliai, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Market8 Mar 2027
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mantas Lasickas is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Mar 2027
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marius Sernas is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Mar 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Edgaras Slavickas has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad8 Mar 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.
In brief
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Squad
6 new faces, and Atlantas are still learning each other
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Player ratings
Linas Dapkus runs at them all day
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Boardroom
Atlantas spend it where nobody looks
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market21 Sep 2026
“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 Atlantas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Edvinas Girdvainis trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.