Edvinas Kuklys

Left Wingback - Stumbras U18
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106 Edition

The Stumbras Herald

7 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad7 Aug 2028

Edvinas Kuklys damages knee ligaments — 20 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 20 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market7 Aug 2028

Mantas Dapkus 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 The request is on a desk at Stumbras, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market7 Aug 2028

Only the photograph left for Mantas Dapkus

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mantas Dapkus will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Stumbras the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Transfer targets7 Aug 2028

Nosa Iyobosa Edokpolor is a medical away from Stumbras

The deal with Kauno Zalgiris 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.

Boardroom7 Aug 2028

Friday Apollos signs for Atlantas while still at Stumbras

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Friday Apollos has agreed terms with Atlantas for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad7 Aug 2028

Words exchanged at Stumbras

Mouhamed Souare and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad7 Aug 2028

Christian Travaglini 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.

Transfer targets7 Aug 2028

Stumbras rebuffed over Carlos Olses

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Zalgiris have kept their man, and Stumbras go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad7 Aug 2028

Dmitriy Guschenko signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dmitriy Guschenko and Stumbras agree another 1 years.

In brief

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105 Edition

The Stumbras Herald

31 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match31 Jul 2028

Stumbras sink to position 7

12 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Squad31 Jul 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Edvinas Kuklys

27 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.

Match26 Jul 2028

Stumbras out of the cup

Zalgiris ended it 1‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Squad31 Jul 2028

Thodoros Venetikidis stands alone

6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Transfer targets31 Jul 2028

Ilja Vsyakikh is a medical away from Stumbras

The deal with Siauliai 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 Jul 2028

Nosa Iyobosa Edokpolor will not be coming to Stumbras

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Kauno Zalgiris is saying, and nobody at Stumbras is enjoying the guessing.

Match26 Jul 2028

4 matches without a win for Stumbras

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Stumbras are no longer polite ones.

Squad31 Jul 2028

A row about effort at Stumbras

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Christian Travaglini was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout31 Jul 2028

The manager makes an example of Labros Delibeis

“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.

In brief

104 Edition

The Stumbras Herald

24 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad24 Jul 2028

The knee: Edvinas Kuklys out for 34 days

34 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Stumbras lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad24 Jul 2028

Words at Stumbras training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Labros Delibeis 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.

Squad24 Jul 2028

Mouhamed Souare 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.

Transfer targets24 Jul 2028

A loan move for Nosa Iyobosa Edokpolor is in the works

Stumbras have made the call to Kauno Zalgiris. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Transfer targets24 Jul 2028

A loan move for Ilja Vsyakikh is in the works

Stumbras have made the call to Siauliai. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

The dugout24 Jul 2028

No hiding place for Solomon Obed

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Solomon Obed, and the manager let it.

In brief

84 Edition

The Stumbras Herald

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad6 Mar 2028

Simon Dia breaks a bone — 92 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 92 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad6 Mar 2028

Jonas Schreiber damages knee ligaments — 31 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 31 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings6 Mar 2028

Mantas Dapkus, 21, steals the show — 7.72

Marked 7.72 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Match4 Mar 2028

No end in sight to Stumbras's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Stumbras has to find a result from somewhere.

The dugout6 Mar 2028

Friday Apollos keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Stumbras may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad6 Mar 2028

Mantas Dapkus stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Mantas Dapkus and Stumbras agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Boardroom6 Mar 2028

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Stumbras

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 2028

Words at Stumbras training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rokas Klimavicius 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.

Match4 Mar 2028

Stumbras come up short against Zalgiris

Zalgiris left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief