Marked for Zan Kampl
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad7 May 2035
A fracture rules Tomas Barauskas out for 44 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Siauliai will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings7 May 2035
Jack Mitchell, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.90
A mark of 7.90 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market7 May 2035
“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.
Squad7 May 2035
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Siauliai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 May 2035
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Zan Kampl and Siauliai agree another 2 years.
Squad7 May 2035
Words at Siauliai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Muhammed Sevgili 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.
The terraces7 May 2035
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Jack Mitchell has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match5 May 2035
It finished 1‑0, and it was Jack Mitchell’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Siauliai.
Player ratings7 May 2035
Ninety minutes of Zakhar Gitselev at his very best
Marked 8.12. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Siauliai.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad9 Oct 2034
A fracture rules Gabi Caschili out for 132 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Siauliai will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad9 Oct 2034
Azriel Gonzalez 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.
Squad9 Oct 2034
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Zan Kampl commits to Siauliai for another 2 years.
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Crisis
Boardroom2 Oct 2034
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Squad2 Oct 2034
A fracture rules Marius Satkus out for 19 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Siauliai will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market2 Oct 2034
“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 Siauliai, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad2 Oct 2034
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Siauliai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Oct 2034
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Zan Kampl commits to Siauliai for another 2 years.
Squad2 Oct 2034
Words at Siauliai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicola Rafanelli 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.
In brief
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Boardroom
Siauliai pull $955.8K back off the table
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Boardroom
The Siauliai dressing room answers
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces6 Mar 2034
The mood at Siauliai has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Player ratings6 Mar 2034
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad6 Mar 2034
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad6 Mar 2034
Azriel Gonzalez 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.
Boardroom6 Mar 2034
7 academy players handed senior numbers at Siauliai
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad6 Mar 2034
“The easiest signature of my career.” Zan Kampl and Siauliai agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match4 Mar 2034
0‑2 to Atlantas, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market6 Mar 2034
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Marius Sernas has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market6 Mar 2034
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Donatas Mikoliunas is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Crisis
Boardroom3 Oct 2033
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Squad3 Oct 2033
Azriel Gonzalez 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 Oct 2033
Nicola Rafanelli 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.
Squad3 Oct 2033
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.
Squad3 Oct 2033
The manager's exit leaves Zan Kampl exposed
Every squad has men who were signed by a particular manager and men who were merely inherited. Zan Kampl is in the first group, and the man who wanted him here is no longer in the building.
Market3 Oct 2033
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Modestas Simkus has his answer from Siauliai; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
In brief
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Boardroom
$965.0K taken back off the Siauliai table
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Boardroom
The Siauliai dressing room answers
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad8 Aug 2033
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Siauliai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Aug 2033
“The easiest signature of my career.” Zan Kampl and Siauliai agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Aug 2033
Words at Siauliai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Muhammed Sevgili 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.