The Utenis Chronicle
Market3 Jul 2028
Aidas Sernas 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.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Josh Robinson 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.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Calum Hewlett stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Calum Hewlett and Utenis agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Jul 2028
The manager has not finished forgetting Darius Jankauskas's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Aidas Jankauskas 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.
Boardroom3 Jul 2028
Intake day at the Utenis academy
4 arrivals, an average age nobody would call a squad, and a set of parents being shown around a building their sons will spend more time in than at home. The scouting has already happened; today is only the paperwork.
In brief
- Market The shop window has Fraser Heard in it
- Market Justas Dapkus leaves for nothing
- Market Marius Eliosius leaves for nothing