Darius Simkus

Left Wingback - Stumbras
25 Jan 2028
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73 Edition

The Stumbras Herald

20 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces20 Dec 2027

The mood at Stumbras has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad20 Dec 2027

Karolis Lasickas breaks a bone — 68 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 68 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad20 Dec 2027

Fedot Malakhov 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.

In brief

Back issues
72 Edition

The Stumbras Herald

13 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad13 Dec 2027

Karolis Lasickas breaks a bone — 75 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 75 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match13 Dec 2027

Stumbras are in real trouble now

Position 7, 4 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad13 Dec 2027

A falling-out at Stumbras

Fedot Malakhov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

In brief

56 Edition

The Trakai Courier

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad23 Aug 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Edgaras Paulauskas

98 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Trakai lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market23 Aug 2027

Trakai say no — this time

The offer from Atlantas for Arturs Stolcers 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.

Market23 Aug 2027

Rokas Eliosius is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Trakai is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Market23 Aug 2027

Lukas Vaitkunas comes home

The shirt still fits. Lukas Vaitkunas is back at Trakai, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Squad23 Aug 2027

A falling-out at Trakai

Wisdom Sule and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets23 Aug 2027

Trakai rebuffed over Vincentas Šarkauskas

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Zalgiris have kept their man, and Trakai go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Marius Barauskas 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.

The dugout23 Aug 2027

Jordan Davies 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.

The dugout23 Aug 2027

Arturs Stolcers knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Arturs Stolcers trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief