Marked for Lukas Girdvainis
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Stumbras
Lukas Satkus and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Vykintas Jankauskas 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 dugout9 Nov 2026
Lukas Satkus knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Lukas Satkus trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market31 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Marius Dubickas out for 16 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Stumbras will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
$23.0K settles it between the clubs for Tadas Slavickas
Atlantas have accepted the money. What Stumbras do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The deal with Trakai is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Suduva have kept their man, and Stumbras go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Stumbras
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rokas Klimavicius was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Stumbras
Mantas Cernych and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout31 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Aidas Eliosius may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.