Marked for Linas Klimavicius
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces11 Sep 2028
The mood at Trakai has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Market11 Sep 2028
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Radim Šudák 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.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Matteo Nicastro gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Matteo Nicastro has just signed for Trakai, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Words at Trakai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexis Theocharous 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.
Squad11 Sep 2028
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces14 Aug 2028
The mood at Trakai has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Market14 Aug 2028
“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.
Squad14 Aug 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Trakai may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Tempers go at Trakai
Alexis Theocharous 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.
Squad14 Aug 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Vikintas Novikovas and Trakai agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom14 Aug 2028
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Rati Grigalava 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.
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Uneasy
Market12 Jun 2028
Siauliai come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Trakai did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market12 Jun 2028
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad12 Jun 2028
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.
Squad12 Jun 2028
Alexis Theocharous 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.
Squad12 Jun 2028
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad12 Jun 2028
The medical room confirms 31 days on the sidelines for Oyinlola Kayode, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces24 Apr 2028
The mood at Trakai has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad24 Apr 2028
There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Tempers go at Trakai
Arman Hovhannisyan 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.
Match22 Apr 2028
6 goals as Trakai and Suduva go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Trakai and Suduva, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Match22 Apr 2028
Linas Klimavicius scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑4 to Suduva, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Words at Trakai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexis Theocharous 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
Crisis
Match18 Mar 2028
14 matches without a win for Trakai
The run now stands at 14, and the questions being asked around Trakai are no longer polite ones.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 14 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad20 Mar 2028
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.
Match18 Mar 2028
A bad afternoon for Trakai against Zalgiris
1‑3 to Zalgiris, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Words at Trakai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Donatas Girdvainis 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.
Squad20 Mar 2028
6 new faces, and Trakai are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The terraces3 Jan 2028
Anger at Trakai spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Market3 Jan 2028
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad3 Jan 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Trakai may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
In brief
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Squad
Tempers go at Trakai
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Squad
Words at Trakai training over how hard people work
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Squad
Andrés Panesso has company in his position
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Uneasy
Squad20 Dec 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Linas Klimavicius and Trakai agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Words at Trakai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Petar Bosančić 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.
Squad20 Dec 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Uneasy
Market13 Dec 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Trakai they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad13 Dec 2027
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.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Petar Bosančić 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad22 Nov 2027
Words at Trakai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Linas Klimavicius 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.
Squad22 Nov 2027
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.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Rati Grigalava is not doing himself any favours
A manager forgives a bad Saturday far more readily than a bad Tuesday, because one of them he can explain and the other one he chose. The reports this week have not been good.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad1 Nov 2027
A fracture rules Petar Bosančić out for 23 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Trakai will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match1 Nov 2027
Trakai are in real trouble now
Position 6, 10 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad1 Nov 2027
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.
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Uneasy
Squad18 Oct 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 38 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market18 Oct 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Andrius Jankauskas will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Trakai the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad18 Oct 2027
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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad11 Oct 2027
A fracture rules Petar Bosančić out for 46 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Trakai will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market11 Oct 2027
“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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Words at Trakai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Linas Klimavicius 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
Uneasy
Squad27 Sep 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 61 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Tempers go at Trakai
Andrius 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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Words at Trakai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Linas Klimavicius 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
Uneasy
Market20 Sep 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Andrius Jankauskas will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Trakai the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad20 Sep 2027
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.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Linas Klimavicius 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.
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Uneasy
Squad23 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Aidas Mikoliunas
45 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
Add another name to the list: Siauliai have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Andrius Jankauskas. The answer from Trakai has not changed — yet.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Petar Bosančić 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Trakai are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad23 Aug 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Linas Klimavicius and Trakai agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market23 Aug 2027
The clock does Aidas Mikoliunas’s negotiating for him
7 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Trakai could ask drops and the wages Aidas Mikoliunas can ask rise.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Darius Vaitkunas
107 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Stumbras lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market16 Aug 2027
Trakai arrived with $230.0K and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.
Market16 Aug 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Stumbras can pretend not to have heard.
The terraces16 Aug 2027
Supporters turn on the $230.0K sale of Linas Klimavicius
He is going to Trakai, the club has $230.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Market16 Aug 2027
The chase for Vykintas Vaitkunas ended with $56.0K changing hands and Utenis out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
The terraces16 Aug 2027
Stumbras spend $56.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $56.0K for Vykintas Vaitkunas, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad16 Aug 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mohamed Ashraf and Stumbras agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad16 Aug 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stumbras this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Aug 2027
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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad16 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Aidas Mikoliunas
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.
Market16 Aug 2027
“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.
Market16 Aug 2027
The paperwork is done: Linas Klimavicius joins from Stumbras in a deal worth $230.0K. Now comes the harder part.
The terraces16 Aug 2027
Trakai spend $230.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $230.0K for Linas Klimavicius, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words at Trakai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Petar Bosančić 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aidas Mikoliunas, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Squad2 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Darius Vaitkunas
121 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Stumbras lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The terraces2 Aug 2027
Anger at Stumbras spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Market2 Aug 2027
Stumbras say no — this time
The offer from Siauliai for Linas Klimavicius 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.
Market2 Aug 2027
“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 Stumbras, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad2 Aug 2027
The medical room confirms 29 days on the sidelines for Rokas Simkus, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Edgaras 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad26 Jul 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Darius Vaitkunas
128 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Stumbras lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match26 Jul 2027
Stumbras sink to position 8
3 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market26 Jul 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Jul 2027
Paulius Lasickas damages knee ligaments — 100 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 100 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.
Market19 Jul 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Edgaras 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.
Market19 Jul 2027
Siauliai are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Stumbras will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Words at Stumbras training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arseniy Sorokin 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 watch19 Jul 2027
“I watch every Stumbras 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.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Jul 2027
Paulius Lasickas damages knee ligaments — 114 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 114 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.
The terraces5 Jul 2027
Anger at Stumbras spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Market5 Jul 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Stumbras can pretend not to have heard.
Market5 Jul 2027
Stumbras say no — this time
The offer from Siauliai for Linas Klimavicius 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Arturs Ciganovs: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Stumbras have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad5 Jul 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stumbras this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match28 Jun 2027
Stumbras are in real trouble now
Position 8, 3 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market28 Jun 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Stumbras can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Tautvydas Burdzilauskas 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
Crisis
Match5 Jun 2027
The wait goes on for Stumbras
16 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match5 Jun 2027
Chastening afternoon for Stumbras
A 0‑5 beating by Suduva was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Market7 Jun 2027
“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 Stumbras, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market7 Jun 2027
Stumbras say no — this time
The offer from Siauliai for Linas Klimavicius 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market7 Jun 2027
The phone has started ringing about Arnas Vaitkunas again, and this time the name on the line is Siauliai. Stumbras are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Edgaras 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.
Match5 Jun 2027
No clean sheets in sight for Stumbras
4 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Squad7 Jun 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marius Simkus, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match15 May 2027
13 matches without a win for Stumbras
The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around Stumbras are no longer polite ones.
Squad17 May 2027
A fracture rules Arnas Vaitkunas out for 23 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Stumbras will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match15 May 2027
Beaten 0‑4 by Utenis, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Market17 May 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Stumbras can pretend not to have heard.
Squad17 May 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad17 May 2027
Tautvydas Burdzilauskas 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.
Squad17 May 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Boardroom17 May 2027
Nobody left the Stumbras dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Player ratings17 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad19 Apr 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 11 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 51 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match17 Apr 2027
No end in sight to Stumbras's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Stumbras has to find a result from somewhere.
Match17 Apr 2027
Nowhere to hide for Stumbras
0‑4 against Suduva, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market19 Apr 2027
“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 Stumbras, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad19 Apr 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match17 Apr 2027
5 matches without a goal for Stumbras
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 5 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Match17 Apr 2027
Stumbras are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 5 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Edgaras 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad5 Apr 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 65 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match3 Apr 2027
Beaten 0‑4 by Kauno Zalgiris, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Match5 Apr 2027
Stumbras are in real trouble now
Position 8, 1 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Match31 Mar 2027
The small margins put Stumbras out
Out, 0‑7 to Suduva, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Market5 Apr 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match3 Apr 2027
7 matches without a win for Stumbras
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Stumbras are no longer polite ones.
The terraces5 Apr 2027
Stumbras are taken apart by Suduva — and the town wants answers
It finished 0-7. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.
The terraces5 Apr 2027
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 7 of the 32 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Squad5 Apr 2027
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad22 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Rokas Dubickas
31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Stumbras lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market22 Feb 2027
“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 Stumbras, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Edgaras 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Stumbras training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arseniy Sorokin 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stumbras this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market8 Feb 2027
Everyone has stopped pretending: Siauliai will make the call about Tadas Dubickas this week. Stumbras have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad1 Feb 2027
Arseniy Sorokin 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Tautvydas Burdzilauskas 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
Add another name to the list: Siauliai have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Tadas Dubickas. The answer from Stumbras has not changed — yet.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Stumbras, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“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.
Market1 Feb 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market25 Jan 2027
“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 Stumbras, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Arnas Vaitkunas 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at Stumbras training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arseniy Sorokin 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market25 Jan 2027
The name of Marius Slavickas has come up in conversations Stumbras were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad25 Jan 2027
The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Aidas Sernas, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market28 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 Stumbras can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Edgaras 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Stumbras training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arseniy Sorokin 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
Uneasy
Market21 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 Stumbras can pretend not to have heard.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Arseniy Sorokin 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Vikintas Satkus 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
Uneasy
Market30 Nov 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Edgaras 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Marius Slavickas 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad23 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 Stumbras this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Arseniy Sorokin 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.
Market23 Nov 2026
Stumbras have let the market know Linas Klimavicius can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.