The Stumbras Herald
Squad5 Jul 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Saulius Kuklys
111 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.
Market5 Jul 2027
Linas Valskis puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at Stumbras, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Ángel Lezama 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Arvydas Valskis signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Arvydas Valskis and Stumbras agree another 2 years.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Stumbras sign 4 boys into the academy
None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Karolis Simkus 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.
In brief
- Loan watch 3 goals on loan for Edvinas Girdvainis
- Market Joris Aliukonis arrives on loan