Marked for Darius Dubickas
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad22 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Karolis Kuklys
154 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Trakai lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 23 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market22 Feb 2027
Ignas Valskis 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.
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From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad15 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Karolis Kuklys
161 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Trakai lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Darius Dubickas out for 31 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Trakai will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad15 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Trakai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad8 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Darius Dubickas out for 40 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Trakai will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Trakai
Marius Refsnes 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Karolis Mikoliunas and Trakai agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad1 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Darius Dubickas out for 47 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Trakai will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market1 Feb 2027
“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.
Market1 Feb 2027
Add another name to the list: Siauliai have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Karolis Mikoliunas. The answer from Trakai has not changed — yet.
Squad1 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Trakai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Karolis Mikoliunas commits to Trakai for another 1 years.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Marius Cernych has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Trakai 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.