Marked for Modestas Jankauskas
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 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 Utenis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Modestas Jankauskas 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The training reports on Darius Lasickas are not good
A bad Saturday is forgiven; a bad Tuesday is chosen. Standards have slipped and in a building where everybody watches everybody, it has been noticed.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Utenis
Aidas Barauskas 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Utenis
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Modestas Jankauskas was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Marcis Cauna and Utenis agree another 1 years.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Utenis
Aidas Barauskas and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Utenis
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Modestas Jankauskas was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marius Cernych commits to Utenis for another 3 years.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I watch every Utenis game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Siauliai runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout14 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Marius Cernych knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Utenis, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Utenis have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Aidas Barauskas and Utenis agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 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 Utenis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Modestas Jankauskas 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.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Andrius Barauskas trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.