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Market31 Aug 2026
Suduva say no — this time
The offer from Zalgiris for Amadou Sabo 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
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Suduva can pretend not to have heard.
Market31 Aug 2026
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Oyinlola Kayode is a Suduva player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Suduva asked and Miedź Legnica said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
NK Maribor 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.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Amadou Sabo has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Suduva will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Suduva that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
Squad31 Aug 2026
He goes off to be somebody else’s player for a fortnight. Suduva lose him for the window and would like him returned in the condition he left.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A call-up flatters the player and the club that produced him in the same breath. Suduva would like him back in one piece and know they will not be consulted.
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Triumph
Match19 Aug 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Moutir Chajia obliged against Trakai. 3‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Suduva.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.17 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
$36.0K settles it between the clubs for Oyinlola Kayode
Kauno Zalgiris have accepted the money. What Suduva do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $35.6K — a club that wants Oyinlola Kayode enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with CSKA Sofia, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Amadou Sabo 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.
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
A falling-out at Suduva
Luka Svetličić 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
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
In brief
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Player ratings
One of those days for Amadou Sabo
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Squad
Too much change too quickly at Suduva
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Triumph
Match12 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Suduva
A 3‑1 win over Stumbras, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A brace, and Luka Svetličić takes the afternoon — 9.02
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Luka Svetličić provided it, and the 9.02 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match12 Aug 2026
Suduva strike at the death to beat Stumbras
There were 85 minutes on the clock and Stumbras had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Suduva did not stop to explain themselves.
Market17 Aug 2026
Stumbras come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Suduva did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market17 Aug 2026
Suduva pay Zalgiris $74.0K for a proper upgrade
Zalgiris did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $74.0K for Petar Bosančić, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A goal and an assist for Marko Pavlovski — 7.93
Involvement in 2 goals, from a player who spent the ninety minutes doing the thing a manager actually wants: being where the ball was going to end up. 7.93 beside his name.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Suduva
Amadou Sabo 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
Suduva have gone to Kauno Zalgiris with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Market17 Aug 2026
Titas Milašius has left for Atlantas in a $130.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move Đorđije Pavličić 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. Đorđije Pavličić is living that version at Suduva, and it tends to show in the first month.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Titas Milašius has agreed terms with Atlantas for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Suduva have gone to Zalgiris with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Amadou Sabo 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 Suduva this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Stumbras have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Titas Milašius. The answer from Suduva has not changed — yet.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Sidy Sanokho and Suduva agree another 3 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. NK Maribor have kept their man, and Suduva go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Saulius Novikovas is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Linas Eliosius has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Moutir Chajia and Suduva agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Suduva
Moutir Chajia 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Suduva can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Suduva
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Amadou Sabo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Rokas Pačėsa has come up in conversations Suduva were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.