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.
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.
77 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Levadia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Levadia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. César Medina 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.
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.
109 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Levadia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Liliu Pikk commits to Levadia for another 1 years.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Levadia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. César Medina 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.
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116 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Levadia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Joonas Antonov 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 Sep 2026
5 new faces, and Levadia are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
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The words a physio says slowly. 138 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.
“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.
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. Levadia will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
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“The easiest signature of my career.” Ken Baranov and Levadia agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
César Medina 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.
Joonas Antonov 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.
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Levadia has been clear about where Konstantin Mets stands, which is more than many ever get.