Marked for
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Levadia
Mihkel Ainsalu 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Alexandr Karnitskiy 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.
The dugout16 Nov 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.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
Sergei Ojamaa breaks a bone — 35 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 35 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Vlasi Kait 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Sillamae Kalev training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marek Teniste 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
Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Sergei Ojamaa out for 63 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Sillamae Kalev will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Marek Teniste 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nikita Ainsalu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I watch every Sillamae Kalev game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Levadia runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Sergei Hein 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
The name of Frank Zenjov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Sillamae Kalev say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
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 Levadia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Real improvement from a squad player at Levadia
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. a squad player is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Levadia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mikhail Sivakov 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
14 new faces, and Levadia are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Joonas Liivak
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market14 Sep 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 Sillamae Kalev, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market14 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Artur Zenjov to FCI Tallinn has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Sillamae Kalev with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mihkel Ainsalu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Artur Marin commits to Sillamae Kalev for another 3 years.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Levadia to sit and watch. I want to come back to Sillamae Kalev and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Artur Marin
“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.
Market14 Sep 2026
The market said no: Marek Teniste stays put
Sillamae Kalev opened the door and nobody walked through it. So Marek Teniste stays — listed, trained, and available — while both sides mark the days to January on the same calendar.
Market14 Sep 2026
Sillamae Kalev have let the market know Marek Antonov can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The training reports on Mihkel Ainsalu are not good
A bad Saturday is forgiven; a bad Tuesday is chosen. Standards have slipped and in a building where everybody watches everybody, it has been noticed.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
Levadia say no — this time
The offer from Slutsk for Mollo Bessala 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The clubs have shaken hands with Sillamae Kalev; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Radnicki 1923 keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Mikhail Sivakov 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
Words at Levadia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Karnitskiy 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mollo Bessala commits to Levadia for another 4 years.
Market3 Aug 2026
The shirt still fits. Mihkel Ainsalu is back at Levadia, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
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 Levadia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Levadia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mikhail Sivakov 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Levadia know which stage they are at.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Levadia, another week without a signature from Vladislav Kreida.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Narva Trans 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Sergei Antonov is in the works
Levadia have made the call to Sillamae Kalev. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Levadia try to borrow a squad player
Sillamae Kalev 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.