The Utenis Chronicle
Squad31 Aug 2026
Justas Slavickas damages knee ligaments — 156 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 156 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Hrvoje Sucic out for 31 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Utenis will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market31 Aug 2026
Utenis say no — this time
The offer from Zalgiris for Saulius Mikoliunas 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Mantas Paulauskas 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 Utenis can pretend not to have heard.
Market31 Aug 2026
Mantas Slavickas is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Utenis is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Utenis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Saulius Cernych 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.
In brief
- Squad Utenis count the cost of losing Paulius Sernas
- The dugout Karolis Paulauskas gets it from the manager
- The dugout The manager comes out for Mantas Dubickas