Marked for Tomas Eliosius
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Dec 2026
Aidas Girdvainis damages knee ligaments — 44 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 44 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 89 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Trakai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mantas Lasickas 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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From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Aidas Girdvainis
52 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 96 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market14 Dec 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Aidas Girdvainis
98 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.
Squad2 Nov 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Rokas Sernas knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Rokas Sernas trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Aidas Girdvainis
107 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.
Market26 Oct 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Trakai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mantas Lasickas 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market14 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Donatas Paulauskas to Suduva has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Trakai with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Gustas Jarusevičius 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Trakai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mantas Lasickas 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.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I watch every Trakai game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Atlantas runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Trakai
Aidas 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.
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
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
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
“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.