The Kauno Zalgiris Sentinel
Squad10 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Dāvis Ikaunieks
115 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Kauno Zalgiris lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Kauno Zalgiris
Damjan Pavlović 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Joris Moutachy 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Erik Midtgarden
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Kauno Zalgiris will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Market10 Aug 2026
48 months and counting on Amine Benchaib
Still no offer on the table, and Amine Benchaib’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Market10 Aug 2026
Kauno Zalgiris bring in an old head
Erik Midtgarden is 39 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
In brief
- Market Kauno Zalgiris borrow Marius Satkus
- Market Kauno Zalgiris bring in Rokas Eliosius on loan