Marked for Marius Cernych
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad15 Nov 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Marius Cernych
100 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.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Sergio Rivas 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.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Words at Siauliai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luka Caculović 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
Squad1 Nov 2027
34 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.
Match1 Nov 2027
Siauliai are in real trouble now
Position 7, 11 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.
Market1 Nov 2027
“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.
Boardroom1 Nov 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Siauliai
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Sergio Rivas 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.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Words at Siauliai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luka Caculović 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The terraces25 Oct 2027
Anger at Siauliai spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad25 Oct 2027
41 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 Oct 2027
Luka Caculović 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.
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Uneasy
Market11 Oct 2027
Lukáš Ho Hung 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 Siauliai can pretend not to have heard.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Sergio Rivas in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Siauliai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Luka Caculović 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.
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Uneasy
Match4 Oct 2027
Siauliai sink to position 7
11 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market4 Oct 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Siauliai can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
The scrutiny sharpens at Siauliai
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Siauliai is running low.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Words at Siauliai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luka Caculović 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.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Bilal Faye 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.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“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.
Squad4 Oct 2027
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Siauliai told Radosław Seweryś something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
$1.2M taken back off the Siauliai table
What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.
Market4 Oct 2027
Siauliai have made Bilal Faye available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Uneasy
Squad20 Sep 2027
Sergio Rivas 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.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Words at Siauliai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luka Caculović 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 watch20 Sep 2027
“I watch every Siauliai game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Kauno Zalgiris runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Uneasy
Match6 Sep 2027
Siauliai sink to position 7
11 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market6 Sep 2027
“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 Siauliai, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 15 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Words at Siauliai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luka Caculović 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Paulius Mikoliunas 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Radosław Seweryś, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match9 Aug 2027
Siauliai are in real trouble now
Position 7, 11 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.
Market9 Aug 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Siauliai can pretend not to have heard.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Sergio Rivas 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Valery Fedosyuk and Siauliai agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Words at Siauliai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luka Caculović 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
A muscle injury sidelines Mantas Slavickas for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Siauliai will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
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Uneasy
Market19 Jul 2027
$430.0K is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.
Market19 Jul 2027
Atlantas come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Siauliai did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market19 Jul 2027
“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.
The terraces19 Jul 2027
Siauliai sell a favourite for $430.0K
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Arnas Eliosius was one of the reasons people came, and $430.0K does not replace that by itself.
Squad19 Jul 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Siauliai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Luka Caculović 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match12 Jul 2027
Every point is an argument now for Siauliai
Position 7 and 11 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market12 Jul 2027
“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.
Market12 Jul 2027
Siauliai say no — this time
The offer from Atlantas for Tomas Lasickas was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market12 Jul 2027
Everyone has stopped pretending: Atlantas will make the call about Arnas Eliosius this week. Siauliai have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Words at Siauliai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luka Caculović 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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Paulius Mikoliunas 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The terraces5 Jul 2027
Anger at Siauliai spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Market5 Jul 2027
“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 Siauliai, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market5 Jul 2027
The name of Modestas Dapkus has come up in conversations Siauliai were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Luka Caculović and Siauliai agree another 2 years.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Sergio Rivas in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Siauliai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Words at Siauliai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aidas Eliosius 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match14 Jun 2027
Siauliai are in real trouble now
Position 7, 11 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.
Market14 Jun 2027
“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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Siauliai may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Sergio Rivas 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.
Market14 Jun 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Siauliai have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Words at Siauliai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luka Caculović 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 42. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match5 Jun 2027
Chastening afternoon for Siauliai
A 2‑6 beating by Trakai was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Market7 Jun 2027
“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 Siauliai, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.24, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad7 Jun 2027
There were 6 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.
Market7 Jun 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Match5 Jun 2027
5 matches without a win for Siauliai
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Siauliai are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Jun 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Siauliai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match5 Jun 2027
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 8 goals between Siauliai and Trakai, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
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Uneasy
Market31 May 2027
“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.
Match29 May 2027
The wait goes on for Siauliai
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad31 May 2027
Words at Siauliai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luka Caculović 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 terraces31 May 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Marius Cernych 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.
Player ratings31 May 2027
A performance of 8.10 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings31 May 2027
Fiodor Vaitkunas ran the middle of the pitch — 6.92
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 9 combined actions and a mark of 6.92, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Squad31 May 2027
Paulius Mikoliunas 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.
Match29 May 2027
A 2‑2 draw with Stumbras leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad31 May 2027
Bilal Faye left out for the big one
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Bilal Faye will call it something else in private.
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Uneasy
Squad24 May 2027
There were 10 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.
Market24 May 2027
“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 Siauliai, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 May 2027
Rúben Gonçalves: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Siauliai have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad24 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Siauliai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match22 May 2027
3 matches without a goal for Siauliai
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad24 May 2027
Luka Caculović 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 terraces24 May 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Vikintas Sernas 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.
Match22 May 2027
Point won or two lost for Siauliai?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Suduva? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Market24 May 2027
Siauliai have made Radosław Seweryś available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Crisis
Match17 May 2027
Every point is an argument now for Siauliai
Position 7 and 9 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Match15 May 2027
Beaten 0‑3 by Zalgiris, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Market17 May 2027
“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 Siauliai, and it is not being withdrawn.
The terraces17 May 2027
Fear has settled over Siauliai
Position 7, 9 points, and a crowd that arrives already braced. Relegation seasons are lost in exactly this atmosphere, and everybody who has lived through one recognises it immediately.
Squad17 May 2027
Sergio Rivas 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.
Squad17 May 2027
Words at Siauliai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luka Caculović 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.
Squad17 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Oyinlola Kayode, and the manager let it.
Boardroom17 May 2027
Nobody left the Siauliai dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Squad17 May 2027
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
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Crisis
Squad10 May 2027
A fracture rules Paulius Kuklys out for 14 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Siauliai will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad10 May 2027
There were 8 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.
Market10 May 2027
“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 Siauliai, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad10 May 2027
Luka Caculović 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.
Match8 May 2027
Kauno Zalgiris left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad10 May 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Rúben Gonçalves commits to Siauliai for another 3 years.
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Steady
Squad3 May 2027
A fracture rules Paulius Kuklys out for 21 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Siauliai will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market3 May 2027
“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.
Squad3 May 2027
Sergio Rivas 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.
Squad3 May 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Siauliai know it.
Squad3 May 2027
Words at Siauliai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luka Caculović 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.
Match1 May 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Sergio Rivas. 2‑1 against Utenis, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces3 May 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Marius Cernych 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.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings3 May 2027
The afternoon belonged to Sergio Rivas
7.99, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Siauliai had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
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Crisis
Squad26 Apr 2027
A fracture rules Paulius Kuklys out for 28 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Siauliai will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market26 Apr 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Siauliai can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Sergio Rivas in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Siauliai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Luka Caculović 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.
Match24 Apr 2027
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Crisis
Squad19 Apr 2027
A fracture rules Paulius Kuklys out for 36 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Siauliai will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match19 Apr 2027
Siauliai sink to position 6
6 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Steady
Squad5 Apr 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match31 Mar 2027
Trakai ended it 1‑4. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad5 Apr 2027
A fracture rules Paulius Kuklys out for 50 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Siauliai will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market5 Apr 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Siauliai can pretend not to have heard.
The terraces5 Apr 2027
A cup hiding at Trakai leaves Siauliai explaining themselves
1-4, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.
Squad5 Apr 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Siauliai may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad5 Apr 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Siauliai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch5 Apr 2027
“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 Siauliai, and 1 appearances in 11 say he has earned the hearing.
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Crisis
Match27 Mar 2027
Beaten 0‑3 by Zalgiris, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad29 Mar 2027
A fracture rules Paulius Kuklys out for 57 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Siauliai will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market29 Mar 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Siauliai can pretend not to have heard.
Squad29 Mar 2027
There were 6 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Sergio Rivas 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Words at Siauliai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luka Caculović 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match20 Mar 2027
Nowhere to hide for Siauliai
0‑3 against Kauno Zalgiris, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad22 Mar 2027
A fracture rules Paulius Kuklys out for 64 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Siauliai will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad22 Mar 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Luka Caculović 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.
Boardroom22 Mar 2027
Nobody left the Siauliai dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
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Steady
Squad15 Mar 2027
A fracture rules Paulius Kuklys out for 71 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Siauliai will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.36, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
No sign of nerves from Fiodor Vaitkunas at 20 — 7.73
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Fiodor Vaitkunas did not need any: 7.73, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Sergio Rivas 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.
Match13 Mar 2027
Three points for Siauliai, 3‑1 the final word against Utenis in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad15 Mar 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Siauliai know it.
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Crisis
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 42. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match6 Mar 2027
0‑9 to Atlantas, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A fracture rules Paulius Kuklys out for 78 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Siauliai will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market8 Mar 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Siauliai can pretend not to have heard.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
The terraces8 Mar 2027
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 6 of the 28 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sergio Rivas commits to Siauliai for another 3 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Sergio Rivas in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Siauliai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match6 Mar 2027
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 9 goals between Siauliai and Atlantas, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad22 Feb 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 93 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad22 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Siauliai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Luka Caculović 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.
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Uneasy
Market30 Nov 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Sergio Rivas in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Siauliai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Nov 2026
This league is too small for Luka Caculović
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Siauliai will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
18 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad23 Nov 2026
16 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Ignas Sernas in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Siauliai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Siauliai training over how hard people work
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
Ignas Sernas 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Marius Cernych 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.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Zalgiris to sit and watch. I want to come back to Siauliai and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
Sergio Rivas 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
Words at Siauliai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marius Cernych 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
39 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
Sergio Rivas in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Siauliai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
30 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Siauliai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Valery Fedosyuk 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
Aidas Slavickas damages knee ligaments — 26 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 26 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market5 Oct 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Ignas Sernas 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
Sergio Rivas 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Siauliai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marius Cernych 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.
Squad14 Sep 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Siauliai can pretend not to have heard.
Market31 Aug 2026
Volna come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Siauliai did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Sergio Rivas 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market24 Aug 2026
Ignas 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 Siauliai can pretend not to have heard.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Sergio Rivas in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Siauliai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match12 Aug 2026
The small margins put Siauliai out
Out, 2‑3 to Trakai, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marius Cernych, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.83
A mark of 7.83 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Ignas Sernas in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Siauliai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Kauno Zalgiris will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Oyinlola Kayode has pre-agreed a move to Siauliai, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Valery Fedosyuk 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
Sergio Rivas has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Siauliai know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market10 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 Siauliai, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Valery Fedosyuk gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Valery Fedosyuk has just signed for Siauliai, and for once the answer mattered.
Market10 Aug 2026
Siauliai say no — this time
The offer from Zalgiris for Saulius Paulauskas was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ignas Sernas and Siauliai agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ignas Sernas in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Siauliai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Siauliai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marius Cernych 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.