Marked for Rauno Klavan
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad23 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Kevin Anderson out for 108 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Parnu will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market23 Aug 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
The paperwork is done: Taijo Hein joins from Levadia in a deal worth $24.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Tony Varjund 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 Parnu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words at Parnu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniil Chernyshev 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Tony Varjund has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Parnu 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.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Market26 Jul 2027
Parnu say no — this time
The offer from Narva Trans for Marek Kait was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market26 Jul 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Tempers go at Parnu
Rustam Vazitdinov 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.
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Steady
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
Nobody could get near Karl Puri
Successful dribbles: 55. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market14 Jun 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.
The terraces14 Jun 2027
Parnu sell a favourite for $250.0K
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Sergei Vassiljev was one of the reasons people came, and $250.0K does not replace that by itself.
Market14 Jun 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Parnu have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad14 Jun 2027
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Parnu are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Tempers go at Parnu
Rustam Vazitdinov 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.
Market14 Jun 2027
Sergei Vassiljev has left for Nomme Kalju in a $250.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Match12 Jun 2027
Levadia left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad14 Jun 2027
“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.
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Steady
Squad10 May 2027
A fracture rules Rauno Klavan out for 19 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Parnu will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market10 May 2027
“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 Parnu, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad10 May 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 Parnu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 May 2027
Daniil Chernyshev 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.
The terraces10 May 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Martin Teniste 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 ratings10 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match8 May 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jared Ulloa. 1‑0 against Tulevik, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings10 May 2027
A performance of 8.04 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Market10 May 2027
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
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Crisis
Squad3 May 2027
Rauno Klavan breaks a bone — 27 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 27 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market3 May 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 Parnu can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Nobody could get near Karl Puri
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match1 May 2027
The wait goes on for Parnu
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad3 May 2027
Tempers go at Parnu
Rustam Vazitdinov 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.
Match1 May 2027
A bad afternoon for Parnu against Tammeka
0‑2 to Tammeka, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Steady
Squad26 Apr 2027
Rauno Klavan breaks a bone — 34 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 34 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market26 Apr 2027
“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 Parnu, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad26 Apr 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 Parnu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Daniil Chernyshev 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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Nikita Pikk, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
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Steady
Squad19 Apr 2027
A fracture rules Rauno Klavan out for 41 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Parnu will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market19 Apr 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.
Squad19 Apr 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 Parnu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Daniil Chernyshev 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.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Karl Puri runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad19 Apr 2027
“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.
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Crisis
Squad12 Apr 2027
A one-man rearguard from Marek Kait
There were 15 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad12 Apr 2027
A fracture rules Rauno Klavan out for 48 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Parnu will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match10 Apr 2027
A hiding for Parnu
Beaten 0‑6 by Levadia, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Market12 Apr 2027
“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 Parnu, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad12 Apr 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Parnu know it.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Parnu
Rustam Vazitdinov 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.
Match10 Apr 2027
6 goals as Parnu and Levadia go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Parnu and Levadia, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Boardroom12 Apr 2027
Nobody left the Parnu dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Loan watch12 Apr 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Parnu, and 5 appearances in 10 say he has earned the hearing.
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Upbeat
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 47. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Apr 2027
A fracture rules Rauno Klavan out for 55 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Parnu will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match31 Mar 2027
Cup progress for Parnu
A 2‑1 win over Tulevik, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Two goals and a mark of 9.09 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Tony Varjund: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Parnu have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market5 Apr 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 Parnu can pretend not to have heard.
Match3 Apr 2027
Three points for Parnu, 4‑3 the final word against Sillamae Kalev in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Parnu
Jared Ulloa 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.
Match3 Apr 2027
Tony Varjund among the goals in a wild afternoon
7 goals in one match, Tony Varjund on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Parnu and Sillamae Kalev.
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Crisis
Squad29 Mar 2027
A fracture rules Rauno Klavan out for 62 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Parnu will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market29 Mar 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Parnu
Rustam Vazitdinov 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.
Match27 Mar 2027
3 matches without a goal for Parnu
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Words at Parnu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniil Chernyshev 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.
Match27 Mar 2027
Parnu come up short against Flora
Flora left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad29 Mar 2027
43 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Loan watch29 Mar 2027
“I watch every Parnu game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Tulevik runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Steady
Squad22 Mar 2027
A fracture rules Rauno Klavan out for 69 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Parnu will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market22 Mar 2027
“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 Parnu, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Parnu
Jared Ulloa 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.
Loan watch22 Mar 2027
“I watch every Parnu game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at FCI Tallinn runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Sergei Sappinen 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
Steady
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Nobody could get near Karl Puri
Successful dribbles: 39. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad15 Mar 2027
A fracture rules Rauno Klavan out for 76 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Parnu will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market15 Mar 2027
“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 Parnu, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Parnu
Rustam Vazitdinov 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 Mar 2027
Words at Parnu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniil Chernyshev 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 Mar 2027
“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.
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Upbeat
Squad8 Mar 2027
A fracture rules Rauno Klavan out for 83 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Parnu will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match6 Mar 2027
Parnu win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 90th minute. Tulevik will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Market8 Mar 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Parnu may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad8 Mar 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 Parnu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
Graduation day at Parnu
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Marek Kait and Parnu agree another 2 years.
Match6 Mar 2027
Tulevik made Parnu work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces8 Mar 2027
At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
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Steady
Squad1 Mar 2027
A fracture rules Rauno Klavan out for 90 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Parnu will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market1 Mar 2027
Martin Kait 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 Parnu can pretend not to have heard.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Parnu
Rustam Vazitdinov 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.
Market1 Mar 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Parnu, another week without a signature from Rustam Vazitdinov.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Words at Parnu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sergei Sappinen 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Parnu would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
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Steady
Squad22 Feb 2027
Rauno Klavan breaks a bone — 98 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 98 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market22 Feb 2027
“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 Parnu, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market22 Feb 2027
Only the photograph left for Martin Kait
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Martin Kait will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Parnu the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad22 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 Parnu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Daniil Chernyshev 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.
Loan watch22 Feb 2027
“I watch every Parnu game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at FCI Tallinn runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Steady
Squad15 Feb 2027
Rauno Klavan breaks a bone — 105 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 105 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market15 Feb 2027
Marek Kait 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 Parnu can pretend not to have heard.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Jared Ulloa 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 Parnu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Steady
Squad8 Feb 2027
Rauno Klavan breaks a bone — 112 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 112 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market8 Feb 2027
Jared Ulloa 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 Parnu can pretend not to have heard.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Parnu are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
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Steady
Squad1 Feb 2027
Rauno Klavan breaks a bone — 119 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 119 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market1 Feb 2027
“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 Parnu, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Feb 2027
Add another name to the list: Narva Trans have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Vlasi Dmitrijev. The answer from Parnu has not changed — yet.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words at Parnu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniil Chernyshev 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Parnu
Vladyslav Hevlych 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Parnu, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Squad25 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Rauno Klavan out for 127 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Parnu will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market25 Jan 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 Parnu can pretend not to have heard.
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.
Market25 Jan 2027
Martin Kait has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Parnu they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
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 Parnu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Daniil Chernyshev 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.