Marked for Mark Alan Rämmal
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Dec 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Mark Alan Rämmal is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Andres Järve 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Welco
Mihkel Sepp 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.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Welco
Magnus Villota 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 dugout14 Dec 2026
Evgeniy Gremza 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 Welco, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Welco will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
19 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Welco lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Welco
Magnus Villota and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Andres Järve 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.
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
Wages swallow 99% of the Welco income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Market7 Dec 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Welco, another week without a signature from Bruno Vain.
Market7 Dec 2026
Morten Oscar Orussaar is 20, and Welco have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.