The Trakai Courier
Market18 Jan 2027
Tadas Lasickas puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at Trakai, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Alasana Yirajang turns down Trakai
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Slovan Bratislava keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Trakai
Lukas Satkus and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market18 Jan 2027
Trakai sell Darius Valskis for $100.0K
Darius Valskis has left for Siauliai in a $100.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Trakai rebuffed over Artemijus Tutyškinas
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. NK Celje have kept their man, and Trakai go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Trakai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vykintas 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.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
A loan move for David Matei is in the works
Trakai have made the call to Universitatea Craiova. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Trakai ask about Florjan Jevšenak
A loan enquiry to NK Celje: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Karolis Cernych gets it from the manager
“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.
In brief
- The dugout Marius Paulauskas asks for a word with the manager
- Squad Srđan Grabež takes up the language
- Squad Arnas Eliosius is out on the grass again