Marked for Vikintas Jankauskas
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Oscar Osimhen
86 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Utenis lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Utenis
Vladimir Tufegdžić 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
Words at Utenis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vikintas 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.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Siauliai to sit and watch. I want to come back to Utenis and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 14 matches say the rest.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Arvydas 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Karolis Lasickas trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Utenis
Tadas 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Vikintas Jankauskas 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Vikintas Vaitkunas has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Utenis
Vladimir Tufegdžić 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. Vikintas 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.
Loan watch19 Oct 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Utenis, and 0 appearances in 10 say he has earned the hearing.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Utenis
Vladimir Tufegdžić 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrius Jankauskas, and the manager let it.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Utenis, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Utenis
Vladimir Tufegdžić 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Utenis
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vikintas Jankauskas was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mantas Kuklys and Utenis agree another 1 years.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market5 Oct 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Vykintas Vaitkunas’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Slobodan Lazovic out for 27 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
18 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Market14 Sep 2026
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Saulius Satkus reports back to Utenis with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Utenis
Tadas Girdvainis and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Utenis
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vikintas Jankauskas was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I watch every Utenis game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Siauliai runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market24 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Utenis did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Utenis
Vladimir Tufegdžić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Utenis
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vikintas Jankauskas was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The medical room confirms 32 days on the sidelines for Ikechukwu Eze, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mantas Kuklys, and the manager let it.