Marked for Marius Sernas
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market22 Feb 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Atlantas they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Vykintas Klimavicius 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.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Justas Slavickas trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad15 Feb 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.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Atlantas, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A season on the outside for Darius Kuklys
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Atlantas has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
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Uneasy
Squad18 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 Atlantas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Two hours a week with a tutor, which is the least glamorous thing at Atlantas and the one that decides whether a foreign signing is still here in two years.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Questions about Lukas Kazlauskas on the training pitch
The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
21 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Atlantas lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad21 Dec 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 Atlantas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Marius Sernas plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
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Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 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 Atlantas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market23 Nov 2026
Atlantas have let the market know Deividas Eliosius can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Marius Sernas plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
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Crisis
Match12 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Atlantas
1‑2 against Kauno Zalgiris, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A debut Tomas Barauskas will not forget — 7.40
There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 7.40 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.
Squad17 Aug 2026
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market17 Aug 2026
Siauliai come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Atlantas did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Atlantas
Vykintas Klimavicius and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marius Sernas, and the manager let it.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Karolis Satkus left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Darius Kuklys and Atlantas agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Rokas Cernych 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.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Atlantas say no — this time
The offer from Suduva for Marius Sernas was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Vykintas Lasickas and Atlantas agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Andrius Barauskas 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Atlantas asked and Kauno Zalgiris said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Atlantas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vykintas Lasickas 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.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.