Marked for Martin Ainsalu
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market31 Aug 2026
“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 The request is on a desk at Narva Trans, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Néstor Canelón 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Narva Trans training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lapidar Lladrovci 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.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market31 Aug 2026
“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 The request is on a desk at Sillamae Kalev, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jonny Milla commits to Sillamae Kalev for another 4 years.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Róbert Litauszki 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match12 Aug 2026
Tulevik ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Market17 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Narva Trans have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Martin Ainsalu. The answer from Sillamae Kalev has not changed — yet.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Róbert Litauszki 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hendrik Puri, and the manager let it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
No footballer has ever cost this club more, and the number will be read out every time he misplaces a pass for the next two years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Konstantin Antonov and Sillamae Kalev agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Ken Dmitrijev from Parnu for $21.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Róbert Litauszki 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
Martin Ainsalu 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Sillamae Kalev training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Konstantin Antonov 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
René Zia has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Sillamae Kalev know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Erik Antonov and Sillamae Kalev agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market3 Aug 2026
Mihkel Kait told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Mihkel Kait has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Sillamae Kalev.
Market3 Aug 2026
Experience through the door at Sillamae Kalev
René Zia arrives at 35 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.