Marked for Deividas Kazlauskas
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad6 Sep 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 Stumbras this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market6 Sep 2027
The loan was meant to give him football. 4 games and 0 goals later he is back at Stumbras no further forward, and everybody involved will explain why it was not their doing.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Stumbras will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Deividas Kazlauskas 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Stumbras that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
Market6 Sep 2027
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Aidas Mikoliunas leaves Stumbras the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad1 Mar 2027
A fracture rules Rokas Simkus out for 102 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Andrey Barinov
39 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Donatas Paulauskas 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match12 Aug 2026
Stumbras bow out of the cup
Suduva go through and Stumbras go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market17 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.
Squad17 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Rokas Simkus
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Deividas Kazlauskas and Stumbras agree another 3 years.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.