Marked for Edvinas Kazlauskas
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Steady
Squad5 Feb 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Lukas Vaitkunas
20 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Atlantas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad5 Feb 2029
The manager makes an example of Modestas Sernas
“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.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Edgaras Dubickas has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Atlantas 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.
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Steady
Squad22 Jan 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Lukas Vaitkunas
34 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Atlantas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market22 Jan 2029
“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.
Market22 Jan 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Atlantas is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
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Steady
Squad4 Sep 2028
A fracture rules Linas Barauskas out for 46 days
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.
Market4 Sep 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.
Squad4 Sep 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mateo Shanaj, and the manager let it.
Market4 Sep 2028
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Atlantas will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Market4 Sep 2028
Tadas Dubickas is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Atlantas has been clear about where Tadas Dubickas stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad4 Sep 2028
The manager has not finished forgetting Edvinas Girdvainis's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
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Steady
Squad7 Feb 2028
A fracture rules Rokas Novikovas out for 34 days
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.
Market7 Feb 2028
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Modestas Sernas will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Atlantas the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Aidas Dubickas 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.
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Steady
Squad8 Nov 2027
Edgaras Mikoliunas 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.
Squad8 Nov 2027
The medical room confirms 16 days on the sidelines for Edvinas Vaitkunas, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad8 Nov 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Edvinas Kazlauskas, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Match17 Apr 2027
No end in sight to Atlantas's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Atlantas has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Aidas Dubickas 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.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.