Marked for Ignas Barauskas
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
$71.0K from Atlantas for Karolis Kazlauskas. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Ignas Barauskas
17 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Stumbras lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
Stumbras sell a favourite for $71.0K
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Karolis Kazlauskas was one of the reasons people came, and $71.0K does not replace that by itself.
Market7 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 The request is on a desk at Stumbras, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market7 Sep 2026
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Atlantas moved on, Modestas Kuklys reports back to Stumbras, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Roland Paku in a row with a teammate
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.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Ignas Barauskas
24 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Stumbras lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
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 The request is on a desk at Stumbras, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Uglješa Radinović 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.
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Uneasy
Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Ignas Barauskas
31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Stumbras lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market24 Aug 2026
The KuPS deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Edvinas Sernas reports back to Stumbras with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Market24 Aug 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 Stumbras can pretend not to have heard.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
The name of Edvinas Sernas has come up in conversations Stumbras were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Edvinas Sernas and Stumbras agree another 3 years.
Squad10 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Stumbras training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Roland Paku 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
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Fiodor Vaitkunas, and the manager let it.
Market10 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.