Marked for Ignas Sernas
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
Edvinas Simkus damages knee ligaments — 68 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 68 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Siauliai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Siauliai, and 0 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Edvinas Simkus
97 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Siauliai lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 17 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I watch every Siauliai game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Zalgiris runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Edvinas Simkus
125 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Siauliai lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 45 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market14 Sep 2026
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Gomel moved on, Saulius Slavickas reports back to Siauliai, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
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Triumph
Match12 Aug 2026
Zalgiris through in the cup
A 3‑1 win over Utenis, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The match ball belongs to Nikola Petković, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Deividas Šešplaukis has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Zalgiris this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.07 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 8.01 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Nikola Petković 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Lenos Sofroniou dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Siauliai will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Donatas Klimavicius commits to Siauliai for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Siauliai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Siauliai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Donatas Klimavicius 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Vikintas Simkus has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Siauliai.
Market10 Aug 2026
Ignas Sernas goes looking for football
The minutes were not coming at Siauliai, so they will be looked for at Zalgiris. A loan out is not a goodbye, but it is always a question: about the player, or about the plan.