The Stumbras Herald
Squad24 Aug 2026
The knee: Shota Mikautadze out for 34 days
34 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Stumbras lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market24 Aug 2026
Suduva come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Stumbras did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market24 Aug 2026
Paulius Sernas asks to leave Stumbras
“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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Door shut on Oyinlola Kayode
Stumbras asked and Kauno Zalgiris said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Stumbras training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rokas Lasickas 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Stumbras
Paulius Sernas 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Djordje Bogdanovic out for 26 days
The medical room confirms 26 days on the sidelines for Djordje Bogdanovic, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Tomas Lasickas is still paying for one afternoon at Stumbras
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Mantas Kazlauskas gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
- The dugout Tomas Mikoliunas knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout Linas Lasickas keeps his manager's vote