Darius Simkus

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18 Sep 2026
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Marked for Darius Simkus

6 Edition

The Trakai Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market7 Sep 2026

Darius Simkus hands in a written request

“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.

Market7 Sep 2026

The Zalgiris deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Saulius Girdvainis reports back to Trakai with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Tomas Eliosius 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 Trakai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Mantas Lasickas 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Edvinas Eliosius

“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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Mantas Lasickas has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Trakai will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Trakai Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad24 Aug 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Arvydas Eliosius

17 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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Aidas Girdvainis decides it from twelve yards

2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Match19 Aug 2026

Trakai bow out of the cup

Suduva go through and Trakai go home, 4‑4 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Mantas Lasickas scores twice — 8.08

Two goals and a mark of 8.08 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market24 Aug 2026

Donatas Paulauskas puts it in writing

“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.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Up for the corner, and Donatas Simkus delivers — 7.23

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Donatas Simkus scored, was marked 7.23, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Market24 Aug 2026

Trakai say no — this time

The offer from Nart for Darius Simkus 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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Trakai

José Rondón 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.

Match19 Aug 2026

8 goals as Trakai and Suduva go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 8 goals between Trakai and Suduva, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

In brief