The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Flora U21 have lost him in all but the paperwork.
A new face in his position and a shirt he thought he owned suddenly up for discussion. Flora U21 have promised nothing, which is what clubs promise at this stage.
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Andre Paju has just signed for Kuressaare, and for once the answer mattered.
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Peeter Klein is a Kuressaare player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kuressaare this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bubacarr Tambedou was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Joonas Puri has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Markus Allast has, at Kuressaare, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Karl-Romet Nõmm and Kuressaare agree another 4 years.
The shirt still fits. Pavel Dõmov is back at Kuressaare, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
The shirt still fits. Markus Allast is back at Kuressaare, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Karl-Romet Nõmm 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.
Kuressaare asked and Minsk said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Kuressaare training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marco Lukka 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.
He is doing his job and he is not settling. Kuressaare were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.
49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.