Marked for Karolis Cernych
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Andrius Kuklys commits to Atlantas for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Atlantas
Slaviša Bogdanović and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Dajan Ponjević 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.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Atlantas know which stage they are at.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Kauno Zalgiris have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Andrius Kuklys 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Donatas Klimavicius has his answer from Atlantas; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market3 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 Atlantas can pretend not to have heard.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Paulius Kuklys 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Vikintas Dapkus commits to Atlantas for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Atlantas
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dajan Ponjević was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market3 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Karolis Cernych again, and this time the name on the line is Siauliai. Atlantas are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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. Atlantas will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Dāvis Ikaunieks and Siauliai agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Siauliai
Mamadou Camara and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Siauliai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikola Stanković 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Siauliai know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Market3 Aug 2026
24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Kauno Zalgiris have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Vikintas Kuklys is in the works
Siauliai have made the call to Utenis. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Siauliai have made the call to Utenis. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Karolis Cernych is in the works
Siauliai have made the call to Atlantas. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
In brief
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Market
Siauliai bring in an old head
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Market
Experience through the door at Siauliai
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Market
Experience through the door at Siauliai