Raul Popa

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Flora
21 Aug 2028
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Marked for Raul Popa

96 Edition

The Flora Herald

29 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout29 May 2028

Raul Popa says Flora went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market29 May 2028

Egor Troyakov 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 The request is on a desk at Flora, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market29 May 2028

Ma Anta Seye has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Flora they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad29 May 2028

A last season at home is what Luccas Claro is after

It is sentimental, it is completely genuine, and it is the beginning of a departure nobody has announced. The club can be gracious about it or it can pretend not to have heard.

Match27 May 2028

A bad afternoon for Flora against Vaprus

1‑2 to Vaprus, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad29 May 2028

Words at Flora training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luccas Claro 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.

Squad29 May 2028

Tempers go at Flora

Tristan Toomas Teeväli 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.

Squad29 May 2028

Home is on Dudu's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Flora are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

The dugout29 May 2028

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Silver Ojamaa left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief

Back issues
76 Edition

The Flora Herald

10 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market10 Jan 2028

Terms done: Andreas Vaher is going

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

Market10 Jan 2028

Flora turn down Harju JK Laagri for Gregor Rõivassepp

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

Transfer targets10 Jan 2028

An offer of $220.0K for Mihhail Orlov

Flora have gone to Nomme Kalju 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 Jan 2028

Rommi Siht 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 Flora this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom10 Jan 2028

Andrey Kukhotskovolets will join Flora for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Andrey Kukhotskovolets has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Flora have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Transfer targets10 Jan 2028

Door shut on Moses Fofana

Flora asked and Viimsi said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market10 Jan 2028

Ma Anta Seye attracts admirers

The name of Ma Anta Seye has come up in conversations Flora were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad10 Jan 2028

Words at Flora training over how hard people work

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

Squad10 Jan 2028

Home is on Michael Udebuluzor's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Flora are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

In brief

66 Edition

The Flora Herald

1 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad1 Nov 2027

A falling-out at Flora

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

Squad1 Nov 2027

A row about effort at Flora

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Zé Gabriel was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad1 Nov 2027

Flora have started building around Rommi Siht

He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.

In brief

42 Edition

The Flora Herald

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings17 May 2027

Zé Gabriel goes up and wins it — 7.77

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.77 for the rest of it.

Match15 May 2027

Nobody wants to play Flora right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad17 May 2027

Tempers go at Flora

Sergei Zenjov 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.

Squad17 May 2027

Raul Popa gets the move he always wanted

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

Squad17 May 2027

A row about effort at Flora

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bruno Pacheco was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The terraces17 May 2027

One of their own: Maksim Kalimullin

He is 20 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.

Match15 May 2027

Zé Gabriel sends Flora past FCI Levadia

It finished 2‑0, and it was Zé Gabriel’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Flora.

Loan watch17 May 2027

Tony Varjund has seen enough of Nomme Kalju

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Flora, and 2 appearances in 17 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad17 May 2027

Raul Popa signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Raul Popa commits to Flora for another 4 years.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • Player ratings Rauno Sappinen runs at them all day
  • The dugout Evert Grünvald dropped after a run of poor form