Marked for Sander Mets
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market14 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Hendrik Vassiljev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Sillamae Kalev the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Sillamae Kalev ran out of time with Tulevik. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Parnu 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.
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Uneasy
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Parnu asked and Orenburg said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Sander Mets in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Parnu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
13 new faces, and Parnu 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Slutsk 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Parnu are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
The dugout31 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.
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Crisis
Match12 Aug 2026
Parnu bow out of the cup
Tammeka go through and Parnu go home, 2‑4 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.84 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market17 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Parnu have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Parnu have done the hard part with Narva Trans, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$410.0K on the table at Nomme Kalju. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Match12 Aug 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Parnu and Tammeka in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Parnu asked and Slavia Mozyr said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Parnu
Sander Mets 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.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Nomme Kalju come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Sillamae Kalev did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market10 Aug 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Frank Antonov and Sillamae Kalev agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Frank Antonov 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
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mihkel Klavan was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout10 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.
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Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
He signed expecting a bigger stage than the one he found. It has not taken long, and it has not taken the dressing room long to notice either.
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 Parnu know which stage they are at.
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
7 new faces, and Parnu 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Tammeka 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
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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Sillamae Kalev: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Parnu will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
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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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Sillamae Kalev have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Karl Dmitrijev 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 targets3 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Tammeka: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Frank Antonov knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Sillamae Kalev, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market3 Aug 2026
No place for Frank Pikk in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Frank Pikk has his answer from Sillamae Kalev; what he does with it is the next window’s story.