From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Feb 2027
Žan Leban puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at Suduva, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad1 Feb 2027
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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
17 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
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Steady
Market25 Jan 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Suduva, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Suduva
Amadou Sabo 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Suduva will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A new face in his position, and Faustas Steponavičius suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Suduva have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Suduva would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
Market25 Jan 2027
A season-long look at somebody else’s player: Ignas Cernych arrives from Stumbras with something to prove and a return ticket in the drawer. Good loans make everybody richer; this one starts Saturday.
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Steady
Squad18 Jan 2027
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.
Market18 Jan 2027
The name of Rati Grigalava has come up in conversations Suduva were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad18 Jan 2027
18 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad18 Jan 2027
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Faustas Steponavičius keeps the shirt for now, at Suduva's convenience rather than his own.
Market18 Jan 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Aleksandar Živanović may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Suduva would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
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Steady
Market11 Jan 2027
“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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Suduva say no — this time
The offer from Utenis for Rati Grigalava 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Suduva
Amadou Sabo 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Sidy Sanokho
“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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Suduva will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Market11 Jan 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Žygimantas Baltrūnas has his answer from Suduva; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Steady
Market4 Jan 2027
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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The medical room confirms 50 days on the sidelines for Sidy Sanokho, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad4 Jan 2027
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.
Market4 Jan 2027
Add another name to the list: Stumbras have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Ernestas Stočkūnas. The answer from Suduva has not changed — yet.
Squad4 Jan 2027
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. Suduva will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Market4 Jan 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Aleksandar Živanović has his answer from Suduva; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Suduva
Amadou Sabo 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.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
137% of the income goes out in wages at Suduva
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad28 Dec 2026
No hiding place for Žan Leban
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Žan Leban, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Dec 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
46 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Žygimantas Baltrūnas, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market14 Dec 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Suduva
Rati Grigalava 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Žygimantas Baltrūnas trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
79 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad7 Dec 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Žygimantas Baltrūnas and Suduva agree another 3 years.
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Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Suduva
Amadou Sabo 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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Wages eat 178% of everything Suduva earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad30 Nov 2026
No hiding place for Žan Leban
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Žan Leban, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad23 Nov 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.
Market23 Nov 2026
1 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Suduva could get for him.
Market23 Nov 2026
The name of Rati Grigalava keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Suduva say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Steady
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 Suduva, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market16 Nov 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Suduva they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Suduva
Amadou Sabo 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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Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
110 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad9 Nov 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 178% of everything Suduva earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Suduva
Rati Grigalava 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.
Market2 Nov 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad26 Oct 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“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.
Market26 Oct 2026
2 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Suduva money.
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Steady
Market19 Oct 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.
Market19 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Suduva is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Suduva
Amadou Sabo 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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Steady
Squad12 Oct 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.
Squad12 Oct 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Steve Lawson’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Suduva
Amadou Sabo 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
304% of the income goes out in wages at Suduva
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 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.
Market28 Sep 2026
3 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Suduva could get for him.
Market28 Sep 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Rati Grigalava may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market21 Sep 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Suduva they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Suduva
Amadou Sabo 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Žan Leban
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Žan Leban, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Sep 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Suduva, another week without a signature from Dmitry Ivanov.
Market14 Sep 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Steve Lawson’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market7 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 Suduva, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Suduva
Amadou Sabo 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Lucky Tom has left for Zalgiris in a $44.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
247% of the income goes out in wages at Suduva
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Market7 Sep 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Suduva, another week without a signature from Žygimantas Baltrūnas.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Markas Beneta joins up with his country. Suduva lose him for the window and would like him back in one piece.
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Steady
Squad31 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.
Squad31 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
4 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Suduva could get for him.
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Steady
Match19 Aug 2026
Suduva bow out of the cup
Kauno Zalgiris go through and Suduva go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market24 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.
Market24 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 Suduva, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market24 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Žygimantas Baltrūnas will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Suduva the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Suduva
Amadou Sabo 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Žan Leban
“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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Every debut is a small story about the future: Rati Grigalava, 20 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A mark of 5.52 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
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Triumph
Match12 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Suduva
A 3‑2 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
Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market17 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.
Squad17 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.56, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Edgard Pérez, and the manager let it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 8.53 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Edgard Pérez has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Suduva know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Squad17 Aug 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Suduva have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Suduva say no — this time
The offer from Utenis for Žygimantas Baltrūnas 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.
Market10 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 Suduva, and it is not being withdrawn.
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
The name of Yusuke Omori has come up in conversations Suduva were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Žan Leban has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Suduva know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
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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
Amadou Sabo 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Utenis have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Žygimantas Baltrūnas. The answer from Suduva has not changed — yet.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Mats Lillebo has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Suduva know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Market3 Aug 2026
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Suduva has been clear about where Simas Venckevičius stands, which is more than many ever get.