The Trakai Courier
Squad3 Aug 2026
87 days out for Lukas Simkus after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Trakai will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market3 Aug 2026
Trakai say no — this time
The offer from Siauliai for Vikintas Simkus was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market3 Aug 2026
Rokas Satkus hands in a written request
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Trakai
Rokas 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Trakai rebuffed over Gašper Vodeb
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. NK Celje have kept their man, and Trakai go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Saulius Cernych 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Edgaras Girdvainis attracts admirers
The name of Edgaras Girdvainis has come up in conversations Trakai were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Aleksandar Popović 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 targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Andreas Vaher is in the works
Trakai have made the call to Flora. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
In brief
- Transfer targets Trakai try to borrow Dimitris Rallis
- The dugout Rokas Valskis asks for a word with the manager
- Market No place for Lukas Lasickas in the plan