André Lopes

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17 Sep 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for André Lopes

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The Levadia Post

7 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Andrés Jara keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Levadia may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Tempers go at Levadia

Erik 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.

Squad

Levadia lose André Lopes

19 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

In brief

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The Levadia Post

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Silver Mets out for 27 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Levadia will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

André Lopes: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Levadia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Sander Baranov signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sander Baranov commits to Levadia for another 4 years.

Squad

Jesús Lugo 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 Levadia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Still no ink between Levadia and Mihkel Igonen

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Levadia, another week without a signature from Mihkel Igonen.

Market

Sergei Liivak leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Sergei Liivak leaves Levadia the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

In brief

39 Edition

The Levadia Post

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Artur Sorga, 33, rolls back the years — 7.90

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.90 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

Karl Kallaste signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Karl Kallaste commits to Levadia for another 4 years.

Squad

Jesús Lugo 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 Levadia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Levadia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gabriel Vidović 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.

Match

Levadia get the job done against Flora

A 2‑0 win over Flora, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

Gabriel Vidović in the eights

A performance of 8.74 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Rauno Igonen

Marked 8.69 — 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.

Squad

André Lopes gets it from the manager

“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.

Player ratings

Jesús Lugo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 5. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

24 Edition

The Levadia Post

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Sillamae Kalev come back empty-handed

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

Squad

Jesús Lugo 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 Levadia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Levadia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gabriel Vidović 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.

Squad

André Lopes stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” André Lopes and Levadia agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

No hiding place for Sergei Pikk

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

Market

Karl Liivak told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Karl Liivak has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Levadia.

In brief

23 Edition

The Levadia Post

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

André Lopes gets the move he always wanted

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

Squad

Tempers go at Levadia

Jesús Lugo 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.

Squad

André Lopes stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” André Lopes and Levadia agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Joonas Sappinen attracts admirers

The name of Joonas Sappinen has come up in conversations Levadia were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Erik Pikk 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.

Market

FCI Tallinn are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Levadia will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

In brief