Marked for Modou Tambedou
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
Jhonarby Salazar 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Nomme Kalju training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Modou Tambedou 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Nomme Kalju, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
Bogdan Vaštšuk 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad23 Nov 2026
The manager comes out for Henri Perk
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Henri Perk has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
68 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market16 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Nomme Kalju is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad16 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 Nomme Kalju this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market2 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Leonardo Terán 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Modou Tambedou 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
Bogdan Vaštšuk 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
Words at Nomme Kalju training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Modou Tambedou 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market19 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Stanislav Tsõmbaljuk will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Nomme Kalju the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad19 Oct 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 Nomme Kalju this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Tony Varjund is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
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Words at Nomme Kalju training over how hard people work
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Too much change too quickly at Nomme Kalju
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Bogdan Vaštšuk 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Nomme Kalju training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Modou Tambedou 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Edmir Sali, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market5 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad5 Oct 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 Nomme Kalju this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Modou Tambedou 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
Bogdan Vaštšuk 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
Aleksandr Nikolajev 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market21 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Nomme Kalju is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad21 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 Nomme Kalju this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Modou Tambedou 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 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 Nomme Kalju this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Nomme Kalju training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Modou Tambedou 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Edmir Sali, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match26 Aug 2026
Levadia ended it 1‑4. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
A cup hiding at Levadia leaves Nomme Kalju explaining themselves
1-4, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 7 of the 26 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
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 Nomme Kalju, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Jhonarby Salazar 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Nomme Kalju training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Modou Tambedou 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
“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.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Triumph
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 Nomme Kalju, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Godwin Chinemeren, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.65
A mark of 7.65 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market24 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Stanislav Tsõmbaljuk will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Nomme Kalju the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad24 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 Nomme Kalju this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Modou Tambedou 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 terraces24 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Godwin Chinemeren has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikita Ivanov, and the manager let it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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. Nomme Kalju will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Bogdan Vaštšuk and Nomme Kalju agree another 3 years.
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 Nomme Kalju this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Modou Tambedou 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Nomme Kalju have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market3 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Kristjan Kask has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Nomme Kalju.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Modou Tambedou’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.