Nikša Vujčić 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.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Trakai can pretend not to have heard.
The phone has started ringing about Lukas Cernych again, and this time the name on the line is Suduva. Trakai are listening politely and promising nothing.
Modestas Valskis 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nikša Vujčić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Trakai asked and Rapid Wien said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Trakai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nikša Vujčić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Olympiacos have kept their man, and Trakai go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Fiodor Lasickas after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Rudar Velenje keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Saulius Vaitkunas 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Trakai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikša Vujčić 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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Botev Plovdiv have kept their man, and Trakai go back to a list with one name crossed off it.