The Atlantas Herald
Squad17 Aug 2026
The knee: Lukas Vaitkunas out for 132 days
132 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Atlantas lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Andrius Klimavicius stands alone
9 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match12 Aug 2026
Atlantas bow out of the cup
Kauno Zalgiris go through and Atlantas go home, 0‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market17 Aug 2026
Atlantas turn down Zalgiris for Ignas Eliosius
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market17 Aug 2026
Andrius Barauskas 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 targets17 Aug 2026
Kauno Zalgiris tell Atlantas: Yukiyoshi Karashima is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Justas Simkus 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Atlantas
Paulius Girdvainis 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.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Paulius Girdvainis
“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.
In brief
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Arnas Eliosius
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Karolis Cernych