Joel Obi

Defensive Midfielder - Retired
28 Feb 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Joel Obi

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The Utenis Chronicle

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Utenis

Justas Girdvainis 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.

Squad

Joel Obi finally belongs at Utenis

The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.

Squad

Questions about Arvydas Slavickas on the training pitch

The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.

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The Utenis Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Utenis

Karolis Kuklys 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.

Transfer targets

Spartak Trnava tell Utenis: Philip Elayo Azango is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Words at Utenis training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Justas Girdvainis 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.

Squad

This league is too small for Joel Obi

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Utenis will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

Squad

Rokas Kuklys signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Rokas Kuklys commits to Utenis for another 1 years.

The dugout

Karolis Kuklys knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Karolis Kuklys trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief