Marked for Sander Sorga
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market9 Aug 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at FCI Tallinn is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Taijo Igonen commits to FCI Tallinn for another 3 years.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Taijo Igonen 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.
Market9 Aug 2027
Nikita Ojamaa is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at FCI Tallinn has been clear about where Nikita Ojamaa stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Erik Vassiljev knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at FCI Tallinn, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad9 Aug 2027
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.
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Uneasy
Squad29 Mar 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” FCI Tallinn may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.35, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market29 Mar 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FCI Tallinn can pretend not to have heard.
Match27 Mar 2027
Three points for FCI Tallinn, 2‑1 the final word against Tulevik in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Words at FCI Tallinn training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Erik Vassiljev 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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Uneasy
Squad22 Feb 2027
Taijo Igonen in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FCI Tallinn this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Erik Vassiljev 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Frank Dmitrijev has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at FCI Tallinn 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.
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Uneasy
Squad15 Feb 2027
Taijo Igonen 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words at FCI Tallinn training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Erik Vassiljev 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A season on the outside for Karl Tamm
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at FCI Tallinn has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
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Uneasy
Squad8 Feb 2027
Too much change too quickly at FCI Tallinn
7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Sander Sorga in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FCI Tallinn this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“Ask me in the summer. I will know before anybody else does.” He is 35 with 0 appearances behind him, and FCI Tallinn have to plan for both answers.
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Uneasy
Market1 Feb 2027
“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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Vlasi Teniste and FCI Tallinn agree another 1 years.
Squad1 Feb 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 FCI Tallinn this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Markus Ainsalu, and the manager let it.
Squad1 Feb 2027
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at FCI Tallinn has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Market1 Feb 2027
A season-long look at somebody else’s player: Daniil Pareiko arrives from Narva Trans with something to prove and a return ticket in the drawer. Good loans make everybody richer; this one starts Saturday.
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Crisis
Match19 Aug 2026
3‑4 against Narva Trans, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Market24 Aug 2026
Sander Sorga hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FCI Tallinn can pretend not to have heard.
Market24 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. FCI Tallinn have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Silver Klavan 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Markus Kait, and the manager let it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at FCI Tallinn training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sander Sorga 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Karl Tamm commits to FCI Tallinn for another 3 years.
Market24 Aug 2026
Rauno Antonov is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at FCI Tallinn has been clear about where Rauno Antonov stands, which is more than many ever get.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
Silver Klavan 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
“The easiest signature of my career.” Nikita Ojamaa and FCI Tallinn agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Erik Vassiljev 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.