Marked for Artur Liivak
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market5 Oct 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Hendrik Teniste and Sillamae Kalev agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad5 Oct 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 Sillamae Kalev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Brent Ojamaa 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 Sillamae Kalev can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The medical room confirms 20 days on the sidelines for Hendrik Teniste, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Frank Sappinen commits to Sillamae Kalev for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Alexandr Seraskhov 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
No place for Marek Zenjov in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Marek Zenjov has his answer from Sillamae Kalev; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad3 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 Sillamae Kalev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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. Sillamae Kalev will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Artur Liivak commits to Sillamae Kalev for another 1 years.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Frank Sappinen 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 Frank Sappinen trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market3 Aug 2026
Mihkel Kallaste is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Sillamae Kalev has been clear about where Mihkel Kallaste stands, which is more than many ever get.