Marked for Vikintas Cernych
From our football correspondent
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Market6 Sep 2027
$210.0K — a new record at Trakai
No footballer has ever cost this club more, and the number will be read out every time he misplaces a pass for the next two years.
Squad6 Sep 2027
A fracture rules Tadas Lasickas out for 51 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Tempers go at Trakai
Arnas 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.
The terraces6 Sep 2027
Trakai spend $210.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $210.0K for Lucky Tom, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Nobody at Trakai will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Words at Trakai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tadas Cernych 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.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad14 Jun 2027
102 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.
Market14 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 The request is on a desk at Trakai, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market14 Jun 2027
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.
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Upbeat
Squad7 Jun 2027
109 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.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
A brace, and Modestas Valskis takes the afternoon — 9.09
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Modestas Valskis provided it, and the 9.09 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market7 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 Trakai can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Jun 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.
Squad7 Jun 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.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match5 Jun 2027
It finished 3‑2, and it was Modestas Valskis’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Trakai.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Words at Trakai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tadas Lasickas 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.
The terraces7 Jun 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Modestas Paulauskas has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
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Steady
Squad18 Jan 2027
Arvydas Novikovas damages knee ligaments — 24 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 24 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.
Squad18 Jan 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.
Market18 Jan 2027
Siauliai paid $56.0K and Trakai took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Vikintas Cernych
14 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Trakai
Fanis Bakoulas 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
17 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Vikintas Cernych
21 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.
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 Trakai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tadas Lasickas 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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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
Vikintas Cernych damages knee ligaments — 29 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 29 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Trakai
Fanis Bakoulas 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Trakai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tadas Lasickas 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
Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Vikintas Cernych damages knee ligaments — 36 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 36 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.
Market12 Oct 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.
Squad12 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.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Vikintas Cernych damages knee ligaments — 43 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 43 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Trakai
Fanis Bakoulas 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
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Karolis Lasickas commits to Trakai for another 1 years.
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Vikintas Cernych
51 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.
Squad28 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 Trakai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Trakai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tadas Cernych 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.