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Uneasy
Squad24 Aug 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Atlantas will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $10.3K — a club that wants Andrius Satkus enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
$340.0K on the table at Kauno Zalgiris. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
$11.0K on the table at Utenis. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad24 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Atlantas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market24 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Trakai have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Edgaras Sernas. The answer from Atlantas has not changed — yet.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Atlantas asked and Utenis said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Aidas Novikovas 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A muscle injury and 16 days out for Edgaras Sernas
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Atlantas will quote 16 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
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Crisis
Match12 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Atlantas
1‑2 against Kauno Zalgiris, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Up for the corner, and Uglješa Radinović delivers — 7.53
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Uglješa Radinović scored, was marked 7.53, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Karolis Kazlauskas 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 targets17 Aug 2026
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.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aidas Novikovas, and the manager let it.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Arnas Simkus to a room that had heard them before.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Stumbras: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Michael Kühn commits to Atlantas for another 3 years.
Squad17 Aug 2026
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Atlantas know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Stumbras come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Atlantas did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Dominik Dinga arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Dominik Dinga has, at Atlantas, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Market10 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Linas Satkus commits to Atlantas for another 3 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The offer went to Suduva this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Atlantas
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Linas Satkus was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Atlantas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
Atlantas say no — this time
The offer from Molodechno for Paulius Paulauskas was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market3 Aug 2026
“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 Atlantas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Atlantas
Linas Satkus and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Atlantas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aidas Novikovas 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Jovan Krneta
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. Atlantas will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Kauno Zalgiris have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Artem Turich is in the works
Atlantas have made the call to Minsk. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Market3 Aug 2026
Arnas Valskis is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Atlantas has been clear about where Arnas Valskis stands, which is more than many ever get.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Linas Satkus knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Atlantas, and both men came out saying it was fine.