Nikita Ainsalu

Left Midfielder - Sillamae Kalev U18
10 Jun 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Nikita Ainsalu

29 Edition

The Sillamae Kalev Sentinel

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Words exchanged at Sillamae Kalev

Eduardo 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.

Squad

Douglas Dias 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

Paide tell Sillamae Kalev: Oskar Hõim 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.

The dugout

Artur Ioniţă 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

Sillamae Kalev count the cost of losing Nikita Ainsalu

24 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

Sergio Macías signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Sergio Macías and Sillamae Kalev agree another 4 years.

Market

Talks stall between Sillamae Kalev and Nikita Chevankov

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

The dugout

Aleksey Sysoev 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.

Market

Dmitry Livanov joins Sillamae Kalev on a free

No fee and no drama: Dmitry Livanov has signed at Sillamae Kalev, and the wage bill is the only line that moved.

In brief

Back issues
25 Edition

The Sillamae Kalev Sentinel

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Sillamae Kalev turn down Flora for Leo Lod

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Godwin Chinemeren rejects the move

Sillamae Kalev had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Nomme Kalju, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Words exchanged at Sillamae Kalev

Eduardo 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.

Squad

Artur Ioniţă 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

Sillamae Kalev rebuffed over Ruslan Apekov

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Torpedo Moscow 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 Douglas Dias

“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.

Squad

Sillamae Kalev count the cost of losing Nikita Ainsalu

53 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Market

Levadia are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Sillamae Kalev will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Transfer targets

Sillamae Kalev ask about Ivan Selemenev

A loan enquiry to Mashuk: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief