Marked for Vikintas Cernych
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market21 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 Trakai can pretend not to have heard.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Trakai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Giorgos Katris 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.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Utenis to sit and watch. I want to come back to Trakai and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Darius Vaitkunas commits to Trakai for another 3 years.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market14 Sep 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 The request is on a desk at Trakai, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Víctor Florentín 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Rokas Klimavicius and Trakai agree another 3 years.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market10 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Artem Mitin and Trakai agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Trakai
Artem Mitin 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.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Oyinlola Kayode has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Trakai have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Trakai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Karolis Kazlauskas 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Everyone has stopped pretending: Utenis will make the call about Mantas Dubickas this week. Trakai have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.