The Trakai Courier
Market8 Feb 2027
Aidas Kazlauskas’s move to Stumbras falls through
The deal that would have taken Aidas Kazlauskas to Stumbras has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Trakai with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Marius Dapkus stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Marius Dapkus and Trakai agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Radnicki Nis tell Trakai: Divine Chidera 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Trakai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edgaras Kazlauskas 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A muscle injury sidelines Fiodor Dapkus for 15 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Trakai will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Marius Dapkus
“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.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Marius Jankauskas knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Marius Jankauskas trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A season on the outside for Vikintas Klimavicius
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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Window shut, Lukas Sernas still here
Trakai spent the window trying to move Lukas Sernas on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.
In brief
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Ignas Cernych
- Market Modestas Simkus goes looking for football