Caleb Demery

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Tammeka
1 Mar 2027
Monday
Process

Marked for Caleb Demery

25 Edition

The Tammeka Herald

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Patrick Genro Veelma moves on

Vaprus pay $120.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Transfer targets

Mashuk tell Tammeka: Ivan Selemenev is not for sale

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.

Squad

Oskar Hõim 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.

Transfer targets

Tammeka try to borrow Damir Talikin

Tyumen have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

The dugout

Pavel Marin has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Tammeka 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.

Squad

Caleb Demery still has not settled

A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Tammeka would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.

In brief

Back issues
24 Edition

The Tammeka Herald

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Patrick Genro Veelma has said yes to Vaprus

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Tammeka have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Transfer targets

Flora tell Tammeka: Danil Kuraksin is not for sale

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.

Squad

Tempers go at Tammeka

Richard Aland 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.

The dugout

Richard Aland gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

A row about effort at Tammeka

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

Transfer targets

Tammeka try to borrow Maksim Pavlov

Nomme Kalju have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Squad

No place for Caleb Demery in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Tammeka are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Market

Richard Aland placed on the list

Tammeka have made Richard Aland available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

The dugout

Chilem Williams Ignatius gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Chilem Williams Ignatius is on it.

In brief

23 Edition

The Tammeka Herald

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Patrick Genro Veelma 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 Tammeka can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Caleb Demery due for a Tammeka medical

Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Richard Aland 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 Tammeka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Flora tell Tammeka: Vladislav Kreida is not for sale

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.

Squad

Gonçalo Churro stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Gonçalo Churro and Tammeka agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

A promotion for Richard Aland

Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Richard Aland has moved up it.

The dugout

Herman Pedmanson asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout

Osman Koroma has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Tammeka 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.

Boardroom

Open for business: Tammeka enter the window

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.

In brief