The Siauliai Gazette
Squad4 Jan 2027
Abubakar Abubakar arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Abubakar Abubakar has, at Siauliai, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Siauliai
Alessandro Berardi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Josh Robinson stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Josh Robinson and Siauliai agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words at Siauliai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dániel Farkas 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 dugout4 Jan 2027
Victor gets it from the manager
“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.
Market4 Jan 2027
Siauliai and Justice Apaingolo are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
A loan move for Tomas Simkus 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.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Alessandro Berardi gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Alessandro Berardi is on it.
Market4 Jan 2027
Siauliai bring in an old head
Henri Laurent is 34 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
In brief
- Boardroom Open for business: Siauliai enter the window
- The dugout Nemanja Milić has been promised minutes
- Market Josh Robinson joins Siauliai on a free