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The Stumbras Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad17 Aug 2026

Deividas Jankauskas stands alone

11 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Match12 Aug 2026

Stumbras bow out of the cup

Suduva go through and Stumbras go home, 1‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Market17 Aug 2026

Siauliai come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Stumbras did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Aleksandar Pavlović gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Aleksandar Pavlović has just signed for Stumbras, and for once the answer mattered.

Market17 Aug 2026

Stumbras spend $330.0K to raise the standard

This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $330.0K has been paid because Kristaps Kamess is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Stumbras

Arnas Jankauskas 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.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

No deal for Kajus Bička at that price

Stumbras offered $7.0K; Zalgiris said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Market17 Aug 2026

Edvinas Vaitkunas attracts admirers

The name of Edvinas Vaitkunas has come up in conversations Stumbras were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Aleksandar Pavlović 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.

In brief

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The Stumbras Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Kristaps Kamess is a medical away from Stumbras

The deal with Trakai is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Arnas Jankauskas signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Arnas Jankauskas commits to Stumbras for another 4 years.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Stumbras

Justas Eliosius 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 targets10 Aug 2026

Stumbras rebuffed over Vitaly Shitov

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Tyumen have kept their man, and Stumbras go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad10 Aug 2026

A row about effort at Stumbras

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Donatas Vaitkunas was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market10 Aug 2026

Siauliai expected to open talks for Deividas Kuklys

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Stumbras will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Stumbras ask about Titas Milašius

A loan enquiry to Suduva: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

The dugout10 Aug 2026

Justas Eliosius 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 Stumbras, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout10 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Edvinas Kuklys

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Edvinas Kuklys, and the manager let it.

In brief

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The Stumbras Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market3 Aug 2026

Justas Eliosius hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Stumbras can pretend not to have heard.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Justas Eliosius 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 Stumbras this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market3 Aug 2026

Siauliai join the queue for Deividas Kuklys

Add another name to the list: Siauliai have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Deividas Kuklys. The answer from Stumbras has not changed — yet.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Isloch tell Stumbras: Maxim Kovalevich 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

A row about effort at Stumbras

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Arnas Jankauskas was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout3 Aug 2026

Justas Eliosius 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 Stumbras, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief