Marked for Darius Jankauskas
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 17 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 70 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market28 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Atlantas can pretend not to have heard.
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Uneasy
Market31 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Atlantas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market31 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Zalgiris have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Darius Jankauskas. The answer from Atlantas has not changed — yet.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Ignas Dubickas 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.
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Uneasy
Squad17 Aug 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Edgaras Kuklys: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match12 Aug 2026
Atlantas through in the cup
A 4‑4 win over Kauno Zalgiris, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Market17 Aug 2026
Atlantas say no — this time
The offer from Suduva for Darius Jankauskas 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.30, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Yeferson Paz 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 Atlantas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Arnas Girdvainis has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Atlantas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edgaras Valskis 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.
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Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Linas Klimavicius 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ignas Dubickas 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.