3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Tulevik can tell you which week it ends in.
“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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Raimond Mets 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.
Nobody at Tulevik 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tulevik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Narva Trans defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Goodness Gospel-Eze has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
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.
Goodness Gospel-Eze is 18, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Carlos Fernández 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.
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Tulevik has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
In brief
SquadEric Levit has become a man the manager trusts
$64.0K is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.
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.
He is going to Tulevik, the club has $64.0K 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.
“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.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
Sillamae Kalev spend $6.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $6.0K for Rasmus Luhakooder, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Sillamae Kalev training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Karol Marin 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.
The fee is $64.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Sillamae Kalev drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
Tulevik spend $64.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $64.0K for Marek Pikk, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Kaimar Saag 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tulevik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Tulevik has been clear about where Riho Domberg stands, which is more than many ever get.
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 33 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Evgeniy Karpovich has just signed for Sillamae Kalev, and for once the answer mattered.
“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.
Karol Marin 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.
The phone has started ringing about Martin Pikk again, and this time the name on the line is Paide. Sillamae Kalev are listening politely and promising nothing.
“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 Evgeniy Karpovich.
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.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Liliu Baranov and Sillamae Kalev agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Artur Liivak 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
Words at Sillamae Kalev training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Karol Marin 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.