Marked for Tadas Cernych
From our football correspondent
Steady
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.
Squad1 Nov 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.
Squad1 Nov 2027
“I will know when it is time. I am not there yet.” Tadas Cernych is 35, with 4 appearances behind him, and Trakai will have to plan for whichever answer comes.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
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.
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Steady
Squad26 Jul 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 94 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad26 Jul 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 57 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Trakai may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
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Crisis
Squad31 May 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Trakai may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market31 May 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.
Squad31 May 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.
Match29 May 2027
Kauno Zalgiris left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad31 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.
Squad31 May 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market10 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 Trakai can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 May 2027
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.
Match8 May 2027
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad10 May 2027
Tadas Cernych 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.
Squad10 May 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.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 11. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad30 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Tadas Cernych 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Questions about Modestas Valskis on the training pitch
The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market9 Nov 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 Trakai, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad9 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 Trakai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 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.
From our football correspondent
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.