Marked for Eric Levit
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad9 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Joonas Sorga out for 18 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tulevik will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match9 Aug 2027
Tulevik sink to position 9
8 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
The clubs have shaken hands with Paide; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Market9 Aug 2027
Rauno Igonen has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Tulevik they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
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Squad9 Aug 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Rainer Peips and Tulevik agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad9 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Tulevik
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mal Januzi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Rainer Peips 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 Tulevik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market9 Aug 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Rauno Marin 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.
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Uneasy
Match12 Jul 2027
Tulevik are in real trouble now
Position 9, 8 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market12 Jul 2027
Only the photograph left for Rauno Igonen
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Rauno Igonen will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Tulevik the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
Tulevik have gone to Sillamae Kalev 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.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
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Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Léo 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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Rainer Peips 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 Tulevik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market12 Jul 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Rauno Vassiljev 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.
Market12 Jul 2027
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Brent Sappinen is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
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Loan watch
Karol Sappinen has seen enough of Parnu
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The dugout
The manager has not finished forgetting Léo's mistake
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Market
Eric Levit is free to find somewhere else
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Crisis
Match26 Jun 2027
Nowhere to hide for Tulevik
0‑3 against Narva Trans, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market28 Jun 2027
“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.
Match26 Jun 2027
4 matches without a win for Tulevik
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Tulevik are no longer polite ones.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
Tulevik asked and Nomme Kalju said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match26 Jun 2027
Tulevik are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Squad28 Jun 2027
A row about effort at Tulevik
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mal Januzi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Words exchanged at Tulevik
Rainer Peips 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.
Boardroom28 Jun 2027
Nobody left the Tulevik dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
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 0‑3 Karl Ainsalu left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Crisis
Match14 Jun 2027
Every point is an argument now for Tulevik
Position 9 and 8 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Match12 Jun 2027
0‑4 to Tammeka, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad14 Jun 2027
8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market14 Jun 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Tulevik is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
The offer went to Paide this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
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Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Nomme Kalju have kept their man, and Tulevik go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Léo 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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Rainer Peips 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 Tulevik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
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The dugout
Léo gets it from the manager
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Boardroom
Nobody left the Tulevik dressing room in a hurry
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Loan watch
Karol Sappinen has seen enough of Parnu
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Uneasy
Match8 May 2027
The wait goes on for Tulevik
10 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad10 May 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
The dugout10 May 2027
“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.
Match8 May 2027
4 matches without a goal for Tulevik
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad10 May 2027
Words at Tulevik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mal Januzi 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.
The terraces10 May 2027
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market10 May 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Brent Sappinen 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.
Looking ahead10 May 2027
Both clubs in the mire, one fixture between them, and a ground that will be louder and more frightened than at any point in the season. Tulevik know what is at stake and so does everybody in the away end.
Squad10 May 2027
Rainer Peips 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.
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Uneasy
Market26 Oct 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Tulevik can pretend not to have heard.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Brent Pikk 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 Tulevik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rasmus Luhakooder 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.