Marked for Rokas Barauskas
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Trakai
Daniele Montevago 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rokas Novikovas, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Fiodor 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.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Donatas Lasickas commits to Trakai for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Trakai
Besar Halimi 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 targets10 Aug 2026
Trakai asked and Koper said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tadas Vaitkunas 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Utenis have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Darius Kuklys. The answer from Trakai has not changed — yet.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Besar Halimi has outgrown this division
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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Atlantas have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Donatas Lasickas trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.