From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 36 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Atlantas
Uglješa Radinović and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Gustas Jarusevičius 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.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Arnas Vaitkunas out for 43 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.
Market30 Nov 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 The request is on a desk at Atlantas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad30 Nov 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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Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 50 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Uglješa Radinović 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Atlantas
Arvydas Klimavicius and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
57 days out for Arnas Vaitkunas after a fracture
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.
Market16 Nov 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Atlantas
Uglješa Radinović and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
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Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 64 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Atlantas
Uglješa Radinović and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Atlantas, and 0 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
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Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Arnas Vaitkunas out for 72 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Atlantas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Uglješa Radinović 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Arvydas 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.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 80 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Uglješa Radinović 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
18 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 89 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Atlantas
Uglješa Radinović and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad19 Oct 2026
23 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Arnas Vaitkunas out for 96 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Atlantas
Uglješa Radinović and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Atlantas, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 103 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Atlantas
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Uglješa Radinović was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Atlantas
Arvydas Klimavicius and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Uneasy
Market28 Sep 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Uglješa Radinović 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Gustas Jarusevičius 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Arvydas Cernych
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Aidas Dapkus 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 Aidas Dapkus trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A manager forgives a bad Saturday far more readily than a bad Tuesday, because one of them he can explain and the other one he chose. The reports this week have not been good.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Atlantas
Uglješa Radinović and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad21 Sep 2026
54 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Linas Barauskas 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.
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Uneasy
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Nomme Kalju have kept their man, and Atlantas go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Atlantas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Uglješa Radinović 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.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Atlantas, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Atlantas
Arvydas Girdvainis and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Where he used to play does most of his talking for him at Atlantas. The room defers to it, the kids study it, and the only thing that can puncture it is a bad month.
Market14 Sep 2026
Atlantas opened the door and nobody walked through it. So Arvydas Cernych stays — listed, trained, and available — while both sides mark the days to January on the same calendar.
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Uneasy
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 2 signed and 2 gone
That is the business done at Atlantas until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad7 Sep 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Brest have kept their man, and Atlantas go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Atlantas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gustas Jarusevičius 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Nomme Kalju 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tadas Dubickas slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Tadas Dubickas is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
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Uneasy
Market31 Aug 2026
Atlantas say no — this time
The offer from Suduva for Linas Lasickas 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.
Market31 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Uglješa Radinović 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 targets31 Aug 2026
Atlantas asked and Isloch said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Atlantas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Linas Barauskas 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Atlantas are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
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Uneasy
Market24 Aug 2026
Suduva 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.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Atlantas sell a favourite for $570.0K
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Modestas Klimavicius was one of the reasons people came, and $570.0K does not replace that by itself.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Atlantas can pretend not to have heard.
Market24 Aug 2026
The chase for Gustas Jarusevičius ended with $64.0K changing hands and Zalgiris out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Atlantas
Arvydas Girdvainis and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Gustas Jarusevičius from Zalgiris for $64.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Transfer targets24 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Atlantas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Uglješa Radinović 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.
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Crisis
Match12 Aug 2026
The small margins put Atlantas out
Out, 0‑3 to Kauno Zalgiris, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Market17 Aug 2026
Atlantas say no — this time
The offer from Siauliai for Tadas Dubickas 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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Atlantas are taken apart by Kauno Zalgiris — and the town wants answers
It finished 0-3. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The offer went to Zalgiris 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Atlantas
Uglješa Radinović and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Kauno Zalgiris have kept their man, and Atlantas go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Fiodor Satkus 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A muscle injury and 14 days out for Aidas Dapkus
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Atlantas will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market10 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Suduva have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Arvydas Girdvainis. The answer from Atlantas has not changed — yet.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tadas Dubickas commits to Atlantas for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Uglješa Radinović 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.
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 Barauskas was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Steady
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
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Uglješa Radinović 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Atlantas know which stage they are at.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Tadas Dubickas asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market3 Aug 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Arvydas Cernych has his answer from Atlantas; what he does with it is the next window’s story.