Marked for Arvydas Satkus
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Uneasy
Squad24 Aug 2026
52 days out for Tomas Novikovas after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Trakai will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market24 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 The request is on a desk at Trakai, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The deal with Olimpija Ljubljana is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Trakai
Tomas Novikovas 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
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 Trakai
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tadas Girdvainis was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Vikintas Valskis for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Trakai will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
The dugout24 Aug 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.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Linas Lasickas
“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.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad17 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 14 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match12 Aug 2026
Trakai bow out of the cup
Siauliai go through and Trakai go home, 0‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market17 Aug 2026
Trakai say no — this time
The offer from Suduva for Lukas Kuklys 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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
A cup embarrassment at Siauliai follows Trakai home
0-3. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Every first appearance is one of two stories, and this was the harder one: 5.75, and a long walk to the tunnel. The second appearance is the one that decides what the first one meant.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Crvena Zvezda keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Trakai
Aidas 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Trakai asked and Sumgayit said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Trakai
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Karolis Lasickas was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Steady
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Levski keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Market10 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Lukas Kuklys again, and this time the name on the line is Suduva. Trakai are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Aidas Klimavicius and Trakai agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Trakai
Aidas Klimavicius and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. NK Celje have kept their man, and Trakai go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Trakai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tadas Eliosius 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.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Arvydas Satkus
“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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Astra have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.