The Atlantas Herald
Transfer targets12 Jun 2028
$410.0K settles it between the clubs for Anton Tolordava
Kauno Zalgiris have accepted the money. What Atlantas do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
The dugout12 Jun 2028
Vikintas Valskis keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Atlantas may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Transfer targets12 Jun 2028
Atlantas make their move for Fiodor Sernas
$280.0K on the table at Trakai. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad12 Jun 2028
A falling-out at Atlantas
Nemanja Mihajlović and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Jun 2028
Paulius Lasickas 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 dugout12 Jun 2028
The manager makes an example of Isa Begaliev
“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.
Squad12 Jun 2028
Tadas Dapkus stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Tadas Dapkus and Atlantas agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout12 Jun 2028
Nemanja Mihajlović 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 Nemanja Mihajlović is on it.
Squad12 Jun 2028
Denis Titow wants out of the dugout
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Atlantas will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
In brief
- The dugout Donatas Klimavicius knocks on the manager's door
- Market Hans Pfeiffer leaves for nothing
- Market Edvinas Sernas leaves for nothing