Marked for Lukas Vaitkunas
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
Arnas Simkus hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Siauliai can pretend not to have heard.
Market7 Sep 2026
Utenis come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Siauliai did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Siauliai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Linas Jankauskas 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.
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Uneasy
Market31 Aug 2026
Siauliai say no — this time
The offer from Utenis for Edvinas 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Néstor Canelón 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lukas Vaitkunas, and the manager let it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Nikola Petković 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Linas Jankauskas has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Siauliai 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.