The Trakai Courier
Squad31 Aug 2026
44 days out for Tomas Novikovas after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Trakai will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market31 Aug 2026
Vikintas Valskis asks to leave Trakai
“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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Florjan Jevšenak
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Trakai have done the hard part with NK Celje, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
No thanks: Nemanja Motika rejects the move
Trakai had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Olimpija Ljubljana, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Trakai
Tomas Novikovas 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Omonoia tell Trakai: Angelos Neofytou is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Trakai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Saulius Kuklys 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Trakai try to borrow Luka Mlakar
NK Maribor have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Ignas Dubickas signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ignas Dubickas and Trakai agree another 3 years.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Ignas Cernych
- The dugout Donatas Barauskas knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout Arnas Novikovas keeps his manager's vote