The Zalgiris Courier
Squad12 Dec 2039
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nikita Vasiljev
23 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Zalgiris lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match12 Dec 2039
Zalgiris are in among the leaders
Position 1 and 33 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Market12 Dec 2039
Only the photograph left for Thomas Posch
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Thomas Posch will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Zalgiris the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad12 Dec 2039
Naël Ouajif says Zalgiris 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.
Squad12 Dec 2039
Mattia Leoncini 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 Zalgiris this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Dec 2039
A move Mattéo Le Delas would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Mattéo Le Delas is living that version at Zalgiris, and it tends to show in the first month.
In brief
- Market Zalgiris pick up Mattéo Le Delas for nothing
- Market Ivan Ramirez placed on the list