Marked for Edvinas Eliosius
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad3 Jan 2028
Motiejus Sapola gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Motiejus Sapola has just signed for Atlantas, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad3 Jan 2028
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Atlantas will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Market3 Jan 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.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Words at Atlantas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Linas Paulauskas 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.
Squad3 Jan 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Edgaras Jankauskas commits to Atlantas for another 3 years.
Boardroom3 Jan 2028
Atlantas release $1.2M for the manager
The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market6 Dec 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 The request is on a desk at Atlantas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Paulius Sernas 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.
Squad6 Dec 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Aidas Eliosius and Atlantas agree another 3 years.
In brief
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Squad
João Forelle falls out with a teammate over standards
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Boardroom
Atlantas release $1.2M for the manager
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Squad
The manager makes an example of Jakub Kaduk
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Boardroom
Atlantas sign a deal worth $117.0K a year
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market8 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.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Words at Atlantas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Linas Paulauskas 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.
Boardroom8 Nov 2027
Atlantas release $1.2M for the manager
The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market11 Oct 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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Linas Paulauskas commits to Atlantas for another 4 years.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Words at Atlantas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Linas Paulauskas 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
Upbeat
Market13 Sep 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
João Forelle 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.
Squad13 Sep 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 Atlantas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad13 Sep 2027
The medical room confirms 16 days on the sidelines for Edvinas Cernych, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad13 Sep 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Arnas Girdvainis and Atlantas agree another 3 years.
Loan watch13 Sep 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Atlantas, and 1 appearances in 35 say he has earned the hearing.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad30 Aug 2027
Paulius Sernas 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 Aug 2027
Words at Atlantas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Linas Paulauskas 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 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to João Forelle, and the manager let it.
Market30 Aug 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Edvinas Eliosius may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Market30 Aug 2027
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Linas Novikovas leaves Atlantas the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
Market30 Aug 2027
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Olegs Zjuzins leaves Atlantas the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market16 Aug 2027
$910.0K is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.
The terraces16 Aug 2027
Atlantas sell a favourite for $910.0K
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Donatas Dapkus was one of the reasons people came, and $910.0K does not replace that by itself.
Market16 Aug 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 Atlantas can pretend not to have heard.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Paulius Sernas 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 Aug 2027
Words at Atlantas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Linas Paulauskas 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
The medical room confirms 44 days on the sidelines for Edvinas Cernych, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market19 Jul 2027
$430.0K. No player has ever cost Atlantas more, and expectation arrives with him.
Squad19 Jul 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market19 Jul 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.
The terraces19 Jul 2027
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Arnas Eliosius from Siauliai for $430.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Words at Atlantas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Linas Paulauskas 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.
Loan watch19 Jul 2027
“I watch every Atlantas game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Kauno Zalgiris runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad5 Jul 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market5 Jul 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Linas Novikovas will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Atlantas the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Words at Atlantas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Linas Paulauskas 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.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Atlantas release $1.2M for the manager
The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
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 Atlantas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Intake day at the Atlantas academy
3 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 43. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Atlantas will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad19 Apr 2027
João Forelle 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.
Squad19 Apr 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 Atlantas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Marked 7.82 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Atlantas had the best player on the pitch.
Loan watch19 Apr 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Atlantas, and 2 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
Paulius Sernas 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 Atlantas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Linas Paulauskas 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
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Paulius Sernas, and the manager let it.