Jonas Schmid

Left Forward - Trakai
31 Jan 2027
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The Trakai Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Marius Paulauskas asks to leave Trakai

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Stanley Amon rejects the move

Trakai had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Bayelsa United, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Transfer targets

Olympiacos tell Trakai: Fanis Bakoulas is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

A row about effort at Trakai

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vykintas Paulauskas was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Fiodor Klimavicius

“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.

Market

The market said no: Vykintas Paulauskas stays put

Trakai opened the door and nobody walked through it. So Vykintas Paulauskas stays — listed, trained, and available — while both sides mark the days to January on the same calendar.

In brief

Back issues
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The Trakai Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Trakai out of the cup

Siauliai ended it 2‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Match

Trakai throw away a 2-goal lead

2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Siauliai the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Trakai will enjoy reviewing.

Market

Trakai turn down Suduva for Andrius Eliosius

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Player ratings

A brace, and Edvinas Jankauskas takes the afternoon — 8.27

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Edvinas Jankauskas provided it, and the 8.27 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Edgaras Klimavicius stands alone

6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Squad

Tempers go at Trakai

Lukas Satkus 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 targets

Door shut on Sander Tovstik

Trakai asked and Flora said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout

No hiding place for Andrius Eliosius

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrius Eliosius, and the manager let it.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 2‑3 Marius Sernas left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief