Markus Ainsalu

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The Spartak Nalchik Herald

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match12 Jun 2028

Spartak Nalchik sink to position 14

14 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market12 Jun 2028

Khusey Karkaev 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 Spartak Nalchik can pretend not to have heard.

Market12 Jun 2028

Valery Kartashov is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Spartak Nalchik is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad12 Jun 2028

Words at Spartak Nalchik training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Soslan Lysenko 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.

Boardroom12 Jun 2028

Wages eat 100% of everything Spartak Nalchik earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Squad12 Jun 2028

Markus Ainsalu signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Markus Ainsalu and Spartak Nalchik agree another 3 years.

In brief

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The Levadia Post

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market14 Jun 2027

Manuel Bravo 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 The request is on a desk at Levadia, and it is not being withdrawn.

The terraces14 Jun 2027

Supporters turn on the $76.0K sale of Silver Liivak

He is going to Narva Trans, the club has $76.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Market14 Jun 2027

Levadia sell Silver Liivak for $76.0K

Silver Liivak has left for Narva Trans in a $76.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad14 Jun 2027

Brent Vassiljev 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.

Squad14 Jun 2027

Erik 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 Levadia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match12 Jun 2027

Levadia come up short against Parnu

Parnu left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad14 Jun 2027

Karl Hein has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Levadia will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Squad14 Jun 2027

Liliu Vassiljev makes his debut at 15

At 15 years old, Liliu Vassiljev became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.

Player ratings14 Jun 2027

Nobody could get near Karol Kruglov

Successful dribbles: 11. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief