The Stumbras Herald
Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Ignas Klimavicius
34 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Stumbras lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market24 Aug 2026
Stumbras say no — this time
The offer from Suduva for Karolis Paulauskas 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Lukas Simkus 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
Stumbras make their move for Paulius Kuklys
$150.0K on the table at Trakai. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Stumbras
Karolis Paulauskas 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
Stumbras count the cost of losing Edvinas Slavickas
35 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Trakai tell Stumbras: Arvydas Dapkus is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Stumbras
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Miroljub Kostić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Rokas Novikovas
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- The dugout Fiodor Satkus asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Vykintas Cernych