Lukas Simkus

Striker - Atlantas
25 Jul 2027
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Process

Marked for Lukas Simkus

46 Edition

The Atlantas Herald

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

50 days out for Mantas Paulauskas after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Atlantas will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Tomas Barauskas agrees terms with Stumbras

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Atlantas people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Transfer targets

Amadou Sabo due for a Atlantas medical

Everything agreed with Suduva, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Market

Lukas Simkus asks to leave Atlantas

“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.

Transfer targets

An offer of $270.0K for Modestas Dapkus

Atlantas have gone to Stumbras with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad

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.

Squad

Atlantas lose Mousa Boyata

31 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

4 Atlantas players away with their countries

The training ground goes quiet for a fortnight. 4 men have gone off to be somebody else’s players, and the manager is left with the ones nobody has called.

The dugout

Tomas Barauskas gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Tomas Barauskas is on it.

In brief

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29 Edition

The Atlantas Herald

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Vykintas Klimavicius 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 Atlantas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

Justas Slavickas knocks on the manager's door

“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.

Squad

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.

In brief

6 Edition

The Atlantas Herald

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Atlantas close the window on a squad of their own making

1 in and 0 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Squad

Tempers go at Atlantas

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.

Squad

Rokas Cernych is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Rokas Cernych has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

Squad

A season on the outside for Dušan Puletić

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.

Squad

Dušan Puletić handed the armband

The captaincy goes to Dušan Puletić. It is not a job that wins matches, but a dressing room always notices who is given it.

Market

Window shut, Lukas Kazlauskas still here

Atlantas spent the window trying to move Lukas Kazlauskas on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.

In brief