Marked for Kaspars Stolcers
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Upbeat
Squad7 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 69 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market7 Sep 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 The request is on a desk at Levadia, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Sören Dutoit 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Everyone has stopped pretending: Tulevik will make the call about Erik Dmitrijev this week. Levadia have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Karl Marin 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Levadia, another week without a signature from Khalid Shakhtiev.
Back issues
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Triumph
Match26 Aug 2026
Levadia march on in the cup
Nomme Kalju are out and Levadia go through, 2‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Karl Marin runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Nikita Kruglov 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 terraces31 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Marek Liivak 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Hendrik Pikk was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.14. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Kaspars Stolcers dropped after a run of poor form
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Sören Dutoit 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Levadia have made Kaspars Stolcers available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Triumph
Match19 Aug 2026
Levadia march on in the cup
Tammeka are out and Levadia go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match19 Aug 2026
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Levadia scored in the 93th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Market24 Aug 2026
“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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Tulevik come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Levadia did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad24 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 Levadia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Paide will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Mattias Sapp has pre-agreed a move to Levadia, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Levadia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Erik Zetterberg 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 terraces24 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Rauno Antonov 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Levadia know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nikita Kruglov and Levadia agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Nikita Kruglov 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.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Victor Hugo has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Levadia have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Levadia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Karl 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The name of Frank Vassiljev has come up in conversations Levadia were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
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.