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From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market31 Aug 2026
Atlantas say no — this time
The offer from Suduva for Linas 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.
Market31 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 The request is on a desk at Atlantas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Uglješa Radinović 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Atlantas asked and Isloch said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Atlantas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Linas Barauskas 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Atlantas are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Back issues
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Crisis
Match12 Aug 2026
The small margins put Atlantas out
Out, 0‑3 to Kauno Zalgiris, 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
Atlantas say no — this time
The offer from Siauliai for Tadas Dubickas 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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Atlantas are taken apart by Kauno Zalgiris — and the town wants answers
It finished 0-3. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The offer went to Zalgiris this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Atlantas
Uglješa Radinović and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Kauno Zalgiris have kept their man, and Atlantas go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Fiodor Satkus 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
A muscle injury and 14 days out for Aidas Dapkus
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Atlantas will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.