Marked for Edvinas Lasickas
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad18 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Edvinas Lasickas
101 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Utenis lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Utenis
Saulius 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Manos Sbokos and Utenis agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad11 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Edvinas Lasickas
108 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Utenis lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market11 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad11 Jan 2027
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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad4 Jan 2027
Edvinas Lasickas damages knee ligaments — 116 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 116 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” David Mindombe and Utenis agree another 4 years.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Yeferson Paz 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Utenis have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad4 Jan 2027
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Utenis know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Market4 Jan 2027
Still no offer on the table, and David Mindombe’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Dec 2026
Edvinas Lasickas damages knee ligaments — 123 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 123 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.
Market28 Dec 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 Utenis, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Utenis
Alfredo 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
Edvinas Lasickas damages knee ligaments — 130 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 130 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Alfredo 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Utenis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mantas 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.