Marked for Andrius Dubickas
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market28 Sep 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 The request is on a desk at Stumbras, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Marius Mikoliunas 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 Sep 2026
Lukas Novikovas 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.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 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 Kauno Zalgiris this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Ignas Novikovas 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 Sep 2026
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Kauno Zalgiris would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad24 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 Kauno Zalgiris this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market24 Aug 2026
Oyinlola Kayode has left for Suduva in a $48.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Gratas Sirgėdas for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Kauno Zalgiris will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Kauno Zalgiris training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fedor Černych 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Ángel Lezama
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. Kauno Zalgiris will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad24 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 23 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market24 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.
Squad24 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 Stumbras this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Ignas Kuklys
“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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Saulius Valskis 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Lukas Dubickas has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Stumbras.