A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Harju JK Laagri will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Kristjan Kask 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 Feb 2028
Rihard Meesit 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.
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.
In brief
The dugoutMartin Tomberg asks for a word with the manager
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Harju JK Laagri will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Kristjan Kask 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.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Sigvard Suppi 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.
Nobody at Harju JK Laagri will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Romet Nigula trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
SquadQuestions about Artem Akatov on the training pitch
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and FC Tallinn waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Harju JK Laagri is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Harju JK Laagri this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Hugo Palutaja 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.
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Harju JK Laagri can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
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.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Martin Tomberg trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Ramol Sillamaa signs something — a contract at Harju JK Laagri or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Harju JK Laagri this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Paide have kept their man, and Harju JK Laagri go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Hugo Palutaja was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The name of Martin Žukov has come up in conversations Harju JK Laagri were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Nobody at Harju JK Laagri will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Position 4 on 36 points, and the places that carry a European ticket are close enough to count. Seasons like this are decided by two results in April, and the club knows which two.
The registration window is open and the phone has started. Between now and the deadline this club will be linked with forty players and sign three, which is the usual ratio.
36 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.
Player ratings12 Jul 2027
A brace, and Romet Nigula takes the afternoon — 9.34
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Romet Nigula provided it, and the 9.34 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Martin Tomberg provided it, and the 7.79 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings12 Jul 2027
Ander Sikk, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.74
A mark of 7.74 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.
Player ratings12 Jul 2027
José Vieira was on a different afternoon to everybody else
10.00. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 9 goals between Harju JK Laagri and Tallinna Kalev U21, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.