Erik Klavan

Right Midfielder - Sillamae Kalev U18
18 Sep 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Erik Klavan

15 Edition

The Sillamae Kalev Sentinel

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Words exchanged at Sillamae Kalev

Douglas Dias 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.

Loan watch

Karl Sappinen counts the days

“I watch every Sillamae Kalev game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at FCI Tallinn runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Squad

Marek Igonen 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.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Sillamae Kalev Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Frank Puri damages knee ligaments — 17 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 17 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.

Market

Sander Ainsalu asks to leave Sillamae Kalev

“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 targets

Sillamae Kalev make their move for Denis Poliakov

$11.0K on the table at Narva Trans. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad

A falling-out at Sillamae Kalev

Ken Kallaste and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

The Levadia deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Brent Puri reports back to Sillamae Kalev with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Enrique Esono

Sillamae Kalev 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.

Squad

Erik Klavan stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Erik Klavan and Sillamae Kalev agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

The Mihkel Vassiljev talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Sillamae Kalev know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout

Erik Klavan 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.

In brief

4 Edition

The Sillamae Kalev Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Frank Kallaste sold, and an era ends

$290.0K from Nomme Kalju for Frank Kallaste. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.

Squad

Frank Puri damages knee ligaments — 24 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 24 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.

The terraces

Sillamae Kalev sell a favourite for $290.0K

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Frank Kallaste was one of the reasons people came, and $290.0K does not replace that by itself.

Market

Silver Antonov puts it in writing

“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 Sillamae Kalev, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Eyes on Ken Kallaste again

The phone has started ringing about Ken Kallaste again, and this time the name on the line is Jelgava. Sillamae Kalev are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Words exchanged at Sillamae Kalev

Mihkel 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.

Transfer targets

Sillamae Kalev rebuffed over Fjodor Jekimov

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Flora have kept their man, and Sillamae Kalev go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Mihkel Vassiljev

“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.

Transfer targets

Sillamae Kalev try to borrow Idalécio Dias

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.

In brief