Sander Klavan

Defensive Midfielder - Parnu
5 Nov 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Sander Klavan

96 Edition

The Parnu Chronicle

29 May 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Martin Klavan asks to leave Parnu

“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.

Player ratings

Sander Klavan goes up and wins it — 7.86

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.86 for the rest of it.

Market

Rauno Mets has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Parnu they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Player ratings

Both jobs done by Marek Sorga — 6.75

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 16 actions, 6.75, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

Squad

Tempers go at Parnu

José Rondón 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.

Match

Sander Klavan’s goal not enough for Parnu

Sander Klavan scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Flora, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

In brief

Back issues
93 Edition

The Parnu Chronicle

8 May 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The terraces

The mood at Parnu has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Market

Linas Kuklys asks to leave Parnu

“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.

Player ratings

Sander Zenjov shuts the door

Defensive actions: 23, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Squad

José Rondón 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.

Squad

Dimitris Kyprianou signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dimitris Kyprianou commits to Parnu for another 2 years.

Match

Parnu get the job done against Tulevik

A 2‑0 win over Tulevik, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Martin Klavan

7.92, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Parnu had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Rauno Hein

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Rauno Hein has come out of that comparison in the side, and Parnu have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

Squad

No hiding place for Vlasi Sorga

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vlasi Sorga, and the manager let it.

In brief

85 Edition

The Parnu Chronicle

13 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

The terraces

The mood at Parnu has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad

Daniil Kutsepalov damages knee ligaments — 55 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 55 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.

Player ratings

A brace, and José Rondón takes the afternoon — 8.69

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. José Rondón provided it, and the 8.69 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

Sander Zenjov was immovable

27 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Market

Linas Kuklys 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 Parnu can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

José Rondón 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.

Match

José Rondón sends Parnu past Narva Trans

It finished 2‑0, and it was José Rondón’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Parnu.

Squad

Words at Parnu training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rauno Hein 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Rauno Hein

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rauno Hein, and the manager let it.

In brief

35 Edition

The Parnu Chronicle

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Brent 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.

Squad

José Rondón 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Anton Polorotov

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Anton Polorotov, and the manager let it.

In brief

  • Squad Too much change too quickly at Parnu
  • Player ratings Sander Klavan was immovable
  • Match Point won or two lost for Parnu?
  • Player ratings Marek Ojamaa runs at them all day