Marked for Fiodor Barauskas
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Uneasy
Market31 Aug 2026
Mantas Sernas 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 Atlantas can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Atlantas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Saulius Barauskas 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Atlantas will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
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Uneasy
Market24 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Atlantas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market24 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Atlantas have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Atlantas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Linas Paulauskas 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
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 38. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match12 Aug 2026
Kauno Zalgiris ended it 2‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Market17 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Atlantas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Linas Paulauskas 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 terraces17 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 16-year-old it feels ownership of. Modestas Mikoliunas has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad17 Aug 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Karolis Paulauskas commits to Atlantas for another 3 years.