Trakai close the window on a squad of their own making
1 in and 2 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Squad7 Sep 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. Perugia have kept their man, and Trakai go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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.
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Modestas Valskis is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Trakai has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
“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.
Modestas Valskis 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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.
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.
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.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Deividas Mikoliunas and Trakai agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 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.
Trakai asked and Suduva said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Trakai know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Saulius Vaitkunas trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Still no offer on the table, and Tadas Paulauskas’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.