Marked for Ebrima Camara
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom7 Aug 2028
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Match7 Aug 2028
Parnu sink to position 8
18 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
The dugout7 Aug 2028
This is not rotation. Willian Santos has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Parnu is pretending otherwise.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Changa Bass 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.
Squad7 Aug 2028
A falling-out at Parnu
Artem Perepechko and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets7 Aug 2028
A loan move for Tony Varjund is in the works
Parnu have made the call to Flora. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad7 Aug 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Roman Babaev and Parnu agree another 1 years.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Changa Bass named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Changa Bass is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Market7 Aug 2028
Temi Okuwa is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Parnu has been clear about where Temi Okuwa stands, which is more than many ever get.
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Uneasy
Market17 Jul 2028
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Parnu have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market17 Jul 2028
“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.
Transfer targets17 Jul 2028
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Flora keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad17 Jul 2028
“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; Parnu are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Transfer targets17 Jul 2028
Parnu asked and Flora said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Changa Bass 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.
Squad17 Jul 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Parnu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Somebody watched every match in the division at the weekend and decided he was the best thing in any of them. A small honour, and most careers end without one.
Market17 Jul 2028
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Ebrima Camara has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Parnu.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The terraces10 Apr 2028
Anger at Parnu spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad10 Apr 2028
25 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Parnu lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match5 Apr 2028
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Willian Santos obliged against Tammeka. 3‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Parnu.
Player ratings10 Apr 2028
No sign of nerves from Ebrima Camara at 19 — 7.87
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Ebrima Camara did not need any: 7.87, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
The dugout10 Apr 2028
This is not rotation. Evgeniy Voyna has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Parnu is pretending otherwise.
Player ratings10 Apr 2028
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The terraces10 Apr 2028
At 22 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.
Match5 Apr 2028
Tammeka blown away early
There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. Tammeka tried to reorganise, Parnu did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.
Player ratings10 Apr 2028
Marked 8.21 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
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Crisis
Boardroom21 Feb 2028
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Parnu
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market21 Feb 2028
Evgeniy Voyna 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 Parnu can pretend not to have heard.
Squad21 Feb 2028
A row about effort at Parnu
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jan Cedilnik was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Words exchanged at Parnu
Afonso Martins 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.
The dugout21 Feb 2028
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.
Market21 Feb 2028
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Ebrima Camara may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces14 Feb 2028
The mood at Parnu has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Market14 Feb 2028
“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 Parnu, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Tempers go at Parnu
Evgeniy Voyna 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 dugout14 Feb 2028
This is not rotation. Willian Santos has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Parnu is pretending otherwise.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Words at Parnu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Changa Bass 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 dugout14 Feb 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Wiktor Chudy, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Too much change too quickly at Parnu
8 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Loan watch14 Feb 2028
“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 Parnu, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad14 Feb 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Roman Babaev and Parnu agree another 1 years.
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Crisis
Boardroom24 Jan 2028
The scrutiny sharpens at Parnu
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Parnu is running low.
Market24 Jan 2028
“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 Parnu, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 Jan 2028
A row about effort at Parnu
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and João Victor was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Words exchanged at Parnu
Afonso Martins 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.
The dugout24 Jan 2028
“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.
Squad24 Jan 2028
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Parnu know it.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces17 Jan 2028
The mood at Parnu has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Market17 Jan 2028
“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 Parnu, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market17 Jan 2028
Flora come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Parnu did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets17 Jan 2028
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Flora keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
The dugout17 Jan 2028
This is not rotation. Willian Santos has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Parnu is pretending otherwise.
Squad17 Jan 2028
“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; Parnu are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Transfer targets17 Jan 2028
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.
Squad17 Jan 2028
Words at Parnu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. João Victor 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.
Squad17 Jan 2028
A falling-out at Parnu
Afonso Martins and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market10 Jan 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Parnu can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 Jan 2028
“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; Parnu are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Transfer targets10 Jan 2028
Parnu asked and Flora said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad10 Jan 2028
A row about effort at Parnu
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jan Cedilnik was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad10 Jan 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Parnu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Jan 2028
Add another name to the list: Flora have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Ebrima Camara. The answer from Parnu has not changed — yet.
Squad10 Jan 2028
8 new faces, and Parnu are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Loan watch10 Jan 2028
“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 Parnu, and 0 appearances in 0 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
The manager makes an example of Mamadou Diawara
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces22 Nov 2027
The mood at Parnu has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
This is not rotation. Willian Santos has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Parnu is pretending otherwise.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Words at Parnu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Changa Bass 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.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Words exchanged at Parnu
Afonso Martins 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.
Squad22 Nov 2027
“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; Parnu are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Parnu, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad20 Sep 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Denis Poliakov
14 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Parnu lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market20 Sep 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Parnu can pretend not to have heard.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Words at Parnu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Changa Bass 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.
Squad20 Sep 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Parnu know it.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Words exchanged at Parnu
Mamadou Diawara 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.
The dugout20 Sep 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Evgeniy Gremza, and the manager let it.
The dugout20 Sep 2027
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.
The dugout20 Sep 2027
Denis Poliakov knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Denis Poliakov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market20 Sep 2027
Parnu have made Nikita Krasnov available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad30 Aug 2027
37 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Parnu lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The terraces30 Aug 2027
Anger at Parnu spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Market30 Aug 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Parnu
Nikita Krasnov 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 dugout30 Aug 2027
This is not rotation. Willian Santos has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Parnu is pretending otherwise.
Transfer targets30 Aug 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad23 Aug 2027
36 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Parnu lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market23 Aug 2027
“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 Parnu, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Parnu
Nikita Krasnov 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.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Flora have kept their man, and Parnu go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Parnu
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and João Victor was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Flora 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 dugout23 Aug 2027
Ebrima Camara knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Ebrima Camara trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
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 Kirill Chernyak is on it.
Market23 Aug 2027
Artem Glyak runs his contract down
3 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Parnu money.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Aug 2027
Evgeniy Gremza damages knee ligaments — 43 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 43 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match16 Aug 2027
Every point is an argument now for Parnu
Position 9 and 16 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.
Market16 Aug 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Parnu can pretend not to have heard.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Parnu
Frank Vassiljev 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Changa Bass 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.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Artem Glyak, and the manager let it.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
Ebrima Camara knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Parnu, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Artem Glyak wants out of the dugout
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Parnu will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The terraces2 Aug 2027
The mood at Parnu has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Market2 Aug 2027
“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 Parnu, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout2 Aug 2027
Evgeniy Gremza: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Parnu have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Parnu
Ebrima Camara 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 dugout2 Aug 2027
This is not rotation. Willian Santos has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Parnu is pretending otherwise.
Squad2 Aug 2027
João Victor 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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Parnu can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
The dugout2 Aug 2027
“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.
The dugout2 Aug 2027
João Victor 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match19 Jul 2027
Parnu sink to position 9
16 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad19 Jul 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Parnu can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad19 Jul 2027
A falling-out at Parnu
Nikita Krasnov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Words at Parnu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Changa Bass 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 dugout19 Jul 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Denis Poliakov, and the manager let it.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
A loan move for Evert Grünvald is in the works
Parnu have made the call to Flora. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
Changa Bass knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Parnu, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Artem Glyak wants out of the dugout
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Parnu will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
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 Israel Masinsa Mangabu is on it.
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Crisis
Match12 Jul 2027
The season ends: position 9 for Parnu
The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 16 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.
Squad12 Jul 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Parnu can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad12 Jul 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Parnu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match10 Jul 2027
3 matches without a goal for Parnu
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Player ratings12 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad12 Jul 2027
A row about effort at Parnu
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and João Victor was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match10 Jul 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
“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.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Martin Marin to a room that had heard them before.
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Uneasy
Match19 Jun 2027
The drought breaks for Parnu
16 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Levadia were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Match21 Jun 2027
Every point is an argument now for Parnu
Position 8 and 15 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.
Squad21 Jun 2027
A falling-out at Parnu
Nikita Krasnov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Jun 2027
A row about effort at Parnu
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and João Victor was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces21 Jun 2027
At 22 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.
Match19 Jun 2027
Levadia made Parnu work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
Ninety minutes of Godwin Chinemeren at his very best
Marked 8.40. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Parnu.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
A performance of 8.00 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Looking ahead21 Jun 2027
Parnu face FCI Tallinn in the game that matters most
Two sides from the bottom of the table, three points, and an afternoon that will be described afterwards as a relegation decider by whoever loses it.
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Uneasy
Match12 Jun 2027
The wait goes on for Parnu
16 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.
Market14 Jun 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Parnu can pretend not to have heard.
Match12 Jun 2027
7 matches without a goal for Parnu
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 7 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad14 Jun 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Parnu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Changa Bass 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.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
João Victor 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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
The medical room confirms 34 days on the sidelines for Liliu Kallaste, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
7.31, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Parnu had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
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Uneasy
Match5 Jun 2027
15 matches without a win for Parnu
The run now stands at 15, and the questions being asked around Parnu are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Jun 2027
7 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.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Jan Cedilnik, 20, steals the show — 7.78
Marked 7.78 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Match5 Jun 2027
The goals have deserted Parnu
6 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Parnu can tell you which week it ends in.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Tempers go at Parnu
Nikita Krasnov 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Harmony Okwumo and Parnu agree another 4 years.
Squad7 Jun 2027
A row about effort at Parnu
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Changa Bass was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Ebrima Camara
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Crisis
Match29 May 2027
No end in sight to Parnu's wait for a win
14 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Parnu has to find a result from somewhere.
Market31 May 2027
“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 Parnu, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match29 May 2027
Parnu cannot find the net
5 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad31 May 2027
Words exchanged at Parnu
Nikita Krasnov 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.
Squad31 May 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Parnu can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad31 May 2027
A row about effort at Parnu
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and João Victor was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout31 May 2027
Changa Bass 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.
Match29 May 2027
Parnu come up short against Paide
Paide left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings31 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
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Uneasy
Match22 May 2027
No end in sight to Parnu's wait for a win
13 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Parnu has to find a result from somewhere.
Match24 May 2027
Every point is an argument now for Parnu
Position 8 and 10 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.
Player ratings24 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 May 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ebrima Camara and Parnu agree another 4 years.
Match22 May 2027
The goals have deserted Parnu
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Parnu can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad24 May 2027
A falling-out at Parnu
Nikita Krasnov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad24 May 2027
Words at Parnu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Changa Bass 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 terraces24 May 2027
At 20 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.
The dugout24 May 2027
“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.
In brief
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Player ratings
Both jobs done by Frank Vassiljev — 6.44
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Player ratings
Jan Cedilnik stands above it all
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Crisis
Match15 May 2027
No end in sight to Parnu's wait for a win
12 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Parnu has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings17 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 28. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad17 May 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Parnu know it.
Squad17 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Parnu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match15 May 2027
The goals have deserted Parnu
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Parnu can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad17 May 2027
Words at Parnu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Changa Bass 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.
Match15 May 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout17 May 2027
“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.
The dugout17 May 2027
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Martin Marin to a room that had heard them before.
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Uneasy
Match8 May 2027
The wait goes on for Parnu
11 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.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 32. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad10 May 2027
“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; Parnu are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad10 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Parnu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match8 May 2027
Still nobody has beaten Parnu
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad10 May 2027
Words at Parnu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. João Victor 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.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Changa Bass ran the middle of the pitch — 6.99
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 12 combined actions and a mark of 6.99, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
The dugout10 May 2027
“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.
Match10 May 2027
Halfway: Parnu sit in position 6
9 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.
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Uneasy
Match24 Apr 2027
The wait goes on for Parnu
9 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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
A falling-out at Parnu
Ebrima Camara and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Words at Parnu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Changa Bass 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 dugout26 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ivan Korzhenevskiy, and the manager let it.
Match24 Apr 2027
Late, late show earns Parnu a point
Minute 87, against FCI Tallinn, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad26 Apr 2027
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Parnu will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
Match24 Apr 2027
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Martin Marin chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
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Uneasy
Match10 Apr 2027
No end in sight to Parnu's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Parnu has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Words exchanged at Parnu
Nikita Krasnov 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
“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; Parnu are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad12 Apr 2027
A row about effort at Parnu
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Changa Bass was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Ebrima Camara
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
7.76, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Parnu had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad12 Apr 2027
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Parnu will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
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 Dmitriy Krivosheev is on it.
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Uneasy
Match31 Mar 2027
Parnu bow out of the cup
Sillamae Kalev go through and Parnu go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market5 Apr 2027
“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 Parnu, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
0 on the scoresheet on his first appearance and a mark of 7.26 beside it. Most debuts are got through; this one was enjoyed, by him and by everybody watching it.
Match3 Apr 2027
6 matches without a win for Parnu
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Parnu are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Marked 7.62 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Ebrima Camara is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad5 Apr 2027
“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; Parnu are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Parnu
Nikita Krasnov 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.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
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Uneasy
Squad29 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Parnu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad29 Mar 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Kirill Chernyak and Parnu agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Words at Parnu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitriy Krivosheev 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 dugout29 Mar 2027
“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.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Ebrima Camara knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Ebrima Camara trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
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.
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Steady
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 36. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad15 Mar 2027
18 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad15 Mar 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Parnu know it.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Parnu
Nikita Krasnov 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Parnu
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Changa Bass was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces15 Mar 2027
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.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
“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.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.13 on the card, and the Parnu support went home talking about one name.
In brief
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The dugout
Dmitriy Krivosheev has become a man the manager trusts
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Looking ahead
Parnu take on the side everybody is chasing
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Changa Bass and Parnu agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Parnu can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Parnu
Ebrima Camara 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.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
Graduation day at Parnu
3 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Words at Parnu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitriy Krivosheev 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Liliu Baranov 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Joonas 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Frank Sappinen has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
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The dugout
Parnu pick somebody else ahead of Nikita Sednev
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Match
Point won or two lost for Parnu?
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad22 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Parnu
Nikita Krasnov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at Parnu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Changa Bass 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Too much change too quickly at Parnu
17 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
Evgeniy Voyna knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Evgeniy Voyna trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
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 Kirill Chernyak is on it.
Squad22 Feb 2027
The formation has left Temi Okuwa behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Parnu will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
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Steady
Market18 Jan 2027
$740.0K. Fees like that buy a footballer and rent a debate: every touch will be measured against the number for a season at least.
The terraces18 Jan 2027
Parnu spend $740.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $740.0K for Vladislav Kreida, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Flora have kept their man, and Parnu go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Parnu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitriy Krivosheev 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Parnu are still strangers to each other
10 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
No place for Idalécio Dias in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Parnu are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Wages are the subject a dressing room never discusses and always knows. Everybody at Parnu has now done the sum, and nobody is saying it out loud.
Market18 Jan 2027
A season-long look at somebody else’s player: Godwin Chinemeren arrives from Nomme Kalju with something to prove and a return ticket in the drawer. Good loans make everybody richer; this one starts Saturday.
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Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
Ebrima Camara is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Parnu
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dmitriy Krivosheev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Kirill Chernyak has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Parnu 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Nobody at Parnu 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Full training, no reaction, and a player who wants to be picked immediately. Parnu will hold him back a week and he will spend it arguing.