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The Nomme Kalju Courier

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Nomme Kalju through in the cup

A 3‑2 win over Paide, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Market

Terms done: Tiago Baptista is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Viimsi waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Nomme Kalju is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market

Nomme Kalju turn down Tallinna Kalev for Nikita Ivanov

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Player ratings

A brace, and Fabrício Daniel takes the afternoon — 8.36

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Fabrício Daniel provided it, and the 8.36 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Match

10 unbeaten for Nomme Kalju

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 10 matches without defeat is a foundation Nomme Kalju did not have in the autumn.

The dugout

Vladislav Stepanenko: 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.” Nomme Kalju have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Transfer targets

Newton will not be coming to Nomme Kalju

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at São Paulo is saying, and nobody at Nomme Kalju is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

Words exchanged at Nomme Kalju

Cristhian Loor 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.

Squad

Fabrício Daniel 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 Dnepr Mogilev Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Egor Karpitskiy scores twice — 8.57

Two goals and a mark of 8.57 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Vadim Arutyunyan at 20 — 7.63

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Vadim Arutyunyan did not need any: 7.63, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market

Vladislav Stepanenko 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 Dnepr Mogilev can pretend not to have heard.

Match

Dnepr Mogilev make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Dnepr Mogilev have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad

A falling-out at Dnepr Mogilev

Egor Karpitskiy and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

No deal for Nikita Melnikov at that price

Dnepr Mogilev offered $68.0K; Slavia Mozyr 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.

Transfer targets

Dnepr Mogilev rebuffed over Michael Lilander

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

Match

Egor Karpitskiy sends Dnepr Mogilev past Bumprom Gomel

It finished 2‑1, and it was Egor Karpitskiy’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Dnepr Mogilev.

Market

Pavel Sedich attracts admirers

The name of Pavel Sedich has come up in conversations Dnepr Mogilev were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

In brief