The Stumbras Herald
Squad7 Feb 2028
A fracture rules Justas Dapkus out for 130 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Stumbras will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Deadline passes with 0 signed and 1 gone
That is the business done at Stumbras until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Mouhamed Souare in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stumbras this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets7 Feb 2028
Door shut on Nemanja Mihajlović
Stumbras asked and 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.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Words at Stumbras training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mantas Dapkus 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.
Transfer targets7 Feb 2028
The window shuts on the Vikintas Lasickas deal
Stumbras ran out of time with Atlantas. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Raymond Thomas slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Raymond Thomas is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
The dugout7 Feb 2028
Mouhamed Souare knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Stumbras, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Match7 Feb 2028
Stumbras have something to play for
Position 5 on 18 points, and the places that carry a European ticket are close enough to count. Seasons like this are decided by two results in April, and the club knows which two.
In brief
- Market Emmanuel Dupont leaves for nothing
- Market The window shut and Aaron Atkinson is still in the building