The Utenis Chronicle
Market11 Jan 2027
Andrius Vaitkunas agrees terms with Stumbras
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Utenis people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Rokas Vaitkunas stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Rokas Vaitkunas and Utenis agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Kauno Zalgiris tell Utenis: Rokas Lekiatas is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Utenis
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Goran Smiljanić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Marius Lasickas 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 Utenis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
A loan move for Yukiyoshi Karashima is in the works
Utenis have made the call to Kauno Zalgiris. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
In brief
- The dugout Fiodor Dapkus knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout The manager comes out for Rokas Vaitkunas
- Squad The training reports on Marius Vaitkunas are not good