Marked for Tadas Valskis
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Edgar Mendoza out for 84 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.
Squad5 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 Trakai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Vikintas Klimavicius commits to Trakai for another 1 years.
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Market14 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Zalgiris is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Petar Bosančić has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad14 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 Zalgiris this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Zalgiris training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Grigore Turda 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 did not go to Utenis to sit and watch. I want to come back to Zalgiris and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Grigore Turda 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 Zalgiris, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Market7 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 Zalgiris can pretend not to have heard.
Market7 Sep 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Zalgiris they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tadas Valskis 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Grigore Turda 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 captaincy has been taken off Grigore Turda. Zalgiris will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Grigore Turda asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
Edgar Mendoza breaks a bone — 120 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 120 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market31 Aug 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.
Squad31 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 Trakai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Trakai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Deividas Mikoliunas 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Yilber Aponzá
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Trakai will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Market31 Aug 2026
Tadas Dapkus is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Trakai has been clear about where Tadas Dapkus stands, which is more than many ever get.
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Uneasy
Market31 Aug 2026
“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 Zalgiris, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 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 Zalgiris this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Zalgiris training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kajus Bička 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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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Zalgiris 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Vikintas Klimavicius and Trakai agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Trakai
Arnas Cernych 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Trakai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Donatas Sernas 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.
Squad10 Aug 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Vikintas Barauskas has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Trakai.
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Steady
Squad3 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 Trakai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Paulius Slavickas and Trakai agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Tadas Valskis has come up in conversations Trakai were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.