Marked for Marius Cernych
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad11 Jun 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Marius Kazlauskas
22 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Siauliai lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad11 Jun 2029
Fiodor Dubickas 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.
Squad11 Jun 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Arnas Cernych commits to Siauliai for another 3 years.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad27 Nov 2028
Saulius Kuklys damages knee ligaments — 34 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 34 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.
Squad27 Nov 2028
Paulius Valskis 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.
Squad27 Nov 2028
Fiodor Dubickas 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match22 Apr 2028
No end in sight to Siauliai's wait for a win
11 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Siauliai has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 Apr 2028
A fracture rules Darius Sernas out for 107 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.
Market24 Apr 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Siauliai can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Paulius Valskis 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.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Fiodor Dubickas 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.
Match22 Apr 2028
Atlantas left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market6 Mar 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Siauliai can pretend not to have heard.
Squad6 Mar 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Fiodor Dubickas and Siauliai agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Fiodor Dubickas 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 2028
Graduation day at Siauliai
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Player ratings6 Mar 2028
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market6 Mar 2028
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Donatas Lasickas has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market6 Mar 2028
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marius Cernych has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market6 Mar 2028
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Rokas Dapkus 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.
Match4 Mar 2028
0‑1 to Atlantas, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
In brief
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Squad
The manager makes an example of Adi Kurti
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Squad
Paweł Kosmalski falls out with a teammate over standards
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Boardroom
Siauliai turn down the training-ground plan