Marked for Silver Mets
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad25 Jan 2027
81 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Sillamae Kalev lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market25 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad25 Jan 2027
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.
Market25 Jan 2027
The name of Karol Teniste has come up in conversations Sillamae Kalev were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Martin Teniste was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Mihkel Klavan knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Mihkel Klavan trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Karol Kruglov
110 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sillamae Kalev lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Martin Kallaste 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sander Vassiljev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
Nikita Igonen damages knee ligaments — 38 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 38 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Martin Kallaste and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Sillamae Kalev training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Karol Kruglov 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Karol Teniste
21 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sillamae Kalev lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Karol Antonov 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Karol Kruglov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.