The Atlantas Herald
Squad24 Jan 2028
Sasha Cachia damages knee ligaments — 16 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 16 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market24 Jan 2028
Jovan Krneta hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Atlantas can pretend not to have heard.
Market24 Jan 2028
Vikintas Lasickas has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Atlantas they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets24 Jan 2028
The paperwork begins on Peter Thomas
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Atlantas have done the hard part with Siauliai, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Lazar Sajčić 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 Atlantas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Aidas Mikoliunas 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.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Atlantas lose Andrius Simkus
17 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Transfer targets24 Jan 2028
Atlantas ask about Marko Konatar
A loan enquiry to Kauno Zalgiris: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout24 Jan 2028
Álex Sánchez knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Atlantas, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- Market Marius Lasickas placed on the list
- Market Marius Lasickas's people are making calls