Marked for Aidas Satkus
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad3 Oct 2033
Paulius Lasickas 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.
Market3 Oct 2033
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Arnas Satkus has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Stumbras.
Squad3 Oct 2033
Marius Mikoliunas has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Stumbras will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Uneasy
Match29 Aug 2033
Stumbras sink to position 6
13 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad29 Aug 2033
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stumbras this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad29 Aug 2033
Words at Stumbras training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mikhail Tsipushtanov 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad4 Jul 2033
A fracture rules Paulius Lasickas out for 56 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Stumbras will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad4 Jul 2033
Linas Girdvainis damages knee ligaments — 66 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 66 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.
Match4 Jul 2033
Stumbras sink to position 6
13 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad18 Oct 2032
Paulius Lasickas 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 Oct 2032
Mikhail Tsipushtanov 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.
Squad18 Oct 2032
Marius Mikoliunas has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Stumbras will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.