Karol Klavan

Central Defender - Sillamae Kalev
18 Sep 2026
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Marked for Karol Klavan

6 Edition

The Sillamae Kalev Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market7 Sep 2026

Marek Sappinen asks to leave Sillamae Kalev

“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.

Market7 Sep 2026

Marek Sappinen’s move to Tammeka falls through

The deal that would have taken Marek Sappinen to Tammeka 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Words at Sillamae Kalev training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vido Marković 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Sillamae Kalev

Karol Klavan 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Marek Ainsalu

“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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Brent Ojamaa signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Brent Ojamaa commits to Sillamae Kalev for another 3 years.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Sillamae Kalev Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Vido Marković runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 36. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match26 Aug 2026

The cup run ends for Sillamae Kalev

2‑4 against Flora, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Squad31 Aug 2026

A fracture rules Joonas Pikk out for 16 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.

Market31 Aug 2026

Sillamae Kalev say no — this time

The offer from FCI Tallinn for Karol Klavan 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.

Market31 Aug 2026

Marek Kallaste puts it in writing

“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.

Match26 Aug 2026

6 goals as Sillamae Kalev and Flora go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Sillamae Kalev and Flora, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Market31 Aug 2026

Sergei Sappinen moves on

FCI Tallinn pay $10.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Goran Smiljanić 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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Goran Smiljanić gets it from the manager

“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.

In brief

4 Edition

The Sillamae Kalev Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match19 Aug 2026

Cup progress for Sillamae Kalev

A 4‑3 win over Levadia, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

A brace, and Erik Kruglov takes the afternoon — 9.26

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Erik Kruglov provided it, and the 9.26 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad24 Aug 2026

A fracture rules Joonas Pikk out for 23 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.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Silver Tamm scores twice — 8.72

Two goals and a mark of 8.72 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market24 Aug 2026

Sillamae Kalev say no — this time

The offer from Tammeka for Silver Ainsalu 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.

Market24 Aug 2026

Frank Mets puts it in writing

“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.

Market24 Aug 2026

Narva Trans watching Taijo Liivak

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.

Match19 Aug 2026

7 goals as Sillamae Kalev and Levadia go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Sillamae Kalev and Levadia, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Sillamae Kalev

Karol Klavan 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.

In brief

1 Edition

The Sillamae Kalev Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad3 Aug 2026

Silver Ainsalu 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 Sillamae Kalev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market3 Aug 2026

Tulevik watching Hendrik Marin

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

Rauno Antonov 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

This league is too small for Goran Smiljanić

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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Still no ink between Sillamae Kalev and Karol Klavan

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Sillamae Kalev, another week without a signature from Karol Klavan.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Silver Tamm 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.

In brief