Marked for Markus Dmitrijev
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Hendrik Marin
82 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Levadia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Brent Sorga breaks a bone — 121 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 121 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Markus Dmitrijev 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.
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Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
Hendrik Marin damages knee ligaments — 99 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 99 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Levadia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brage Kvithyld 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Hendrik Marin
107 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Levadia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match26 Aug 2026
Levadia bow out of the cup
Narva Trans go through and Levadia go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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 The request is on a desk at Levadia, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Antonio González 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Levadia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Idriz Batha 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Levadia know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Hendrik Marin
123 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Levadia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market17 Aug 2026
Levadia say no — this time
The offer from Tulevik for Sander Baranov was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Dilshod Jo'rayev 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Idriz Batha
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Levadia will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Market17 Aug 2026
Hendrik Marin is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Levadia has been clear about where Hendrik Marin stands, which is more than many ever get.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Hendrik Marin
131 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Levadia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market10 Aug 2026
Tulevik come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Levadia did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Kristaps Ciganovs and Levadia agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Levadia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Levadia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Idriz Batha 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Levadia will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.