Bas Xavi Simons

Left Forward - Atlantas
27 Sep 2028
Wednesday
Process

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94 Edition

The Atlantas Herald

15 May 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Vikintas Sernas damages knee ligaments — 27 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 27 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.

Squad

A fracture rules Linas Vaitkunas out for 45 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Atlantas will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

6 matches without a win for Atlantas

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Atlantas are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Aidas Jankauskas keeps Atlantas in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Yuta Tanaka says Atlantas went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match

Modestas Valskis rescues a point for Atlantas

It needed Modestas Valskis to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Trakai, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

Back issues
69 Edition

The Atlantas Herald

22 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

Anger at Atlantas spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Marius Satkus

86 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Atlantas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Atlantas boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

In brief