Marked for Karolis Eliosius
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad26 Apr 2032
There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market26 Apr 2032
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Modestas Eliosius will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Siauliai the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad26 Apr 2032
Alex Hartridge 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.
Match24 Apr 2032
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Linas Jankauskas. 2‑1 against Atlantas, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad26 Apr 2032
Words at Siauliai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emil Helt 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.
The terraces26 Apr 2032
At 17 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Back issues
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Crisis
Match15 Sep 2031
Siauliai are in real trouble now
Position 8, 2 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad15 Sep 2031
Marius Satkus breaks a bone — 74 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 74 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad15 Sep 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Karolis Eliosius
16 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Siauliai lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
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Crisis
Squad8 Sep 2031
Marius Satkus breaks a bone — 81 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 81 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad8 Sep 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Karolis Eliosius
23 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Siauliai lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad8 Sep 2031
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Linas Jankauskas commits to Siauliai for another 2 years.
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Crisis
The terraces1 Sep 2031
The mood at Siauliai has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad1 Sep 2031
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 20 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad1 Sep 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Karolis Eliosius
30 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Siauliai lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
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Crisis
Squad25 Aug 2031
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 27 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad25 Aug 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Karolis Eliosius
37 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Siauliai lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad25 Aug 2031
Alex Hartridge 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.