The Atlantas Herald
Match12 Nov 2029
Every point is an argument now for Atlantas
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 Nov 2029
Only the photograph left for Mantas Mikoliunas
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mantas Mikoliunas will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Atlantas the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad12 Nov 2029
Words exchanged at Atlantas
Uglješa Radinović 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.
Squad12 Nov 2029
A row about effort at Atlantas
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Linas Valskis was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market12 Nov 2029
The clock does Magomed Ibragimov’s negotiating for him
2 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Atlantas could ask drops and the wages Magomed Ibragimov can ask rise.
The dugout12 Nov 2029
Marius Dubickas knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Marius Dubickas trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Squad The training reports on Marius Jankauskas are not good
- Boardroom The Atlantas academy earns its keep
- The dugout Darius Girdvainis keeps his manager's vote
- Squad Welcome back, Takefusa Yoshida