Marked for Edgaras Dubickas
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
20 days out for Edgaras Dubickas after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Utenis will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
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 Utenis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Utenis
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andrius Paulauskas was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 28 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad16 Nov 2026
31 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Utenis
Paulius Jankauskas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Vykintas Mikoliunas 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Nobody at Utenis will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Fiodor Satkus knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Fiodor Satkus trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
35 days out for Edgaras Dubickas after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Utenis will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Utenis
Paulius Jankauskas 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Utenis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Saulius Slavickas 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
Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Edgaras Dubickas out for 42 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Utenis will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market2 Nov 2026
Only the photograph left for Fiodor Satkus
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Fiodor Satkus will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Utenis the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Utenis
Vykintas Mikoliunas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
49 days out for Edgaras Dubickas after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Utenis will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
26 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Vykintas Mikoliunas 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
56 days out for Edgaras Dubickas after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Utenis will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Utenis
Paulius Jankauskas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Utenis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Saulius Slavickas 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.