The Utenis Chronicle
Squad14 Dec 2026
Vikintas Dapkus breaks a bone — 14 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 14 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market14 Dec 2026
Only the photograph left for Linas Vaitkunas
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Linas Vaitkunas will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Utenis the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Utenis
Tadas Kuklys and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Tadas Kuklys 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Linas Novikovas 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Arvydas Klimavicius signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Arvydas Klimavicius commits to Utenis for another 3 years.
In brief
- The dugout Arvydas Klimavicius knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout The manager comes out for Darius Slavickas