Marked for Martin Kait
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom6 Nov 2028
Marek Tamm has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Tulevik can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Market6 Nov 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Tulevik can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom6 Nov 2028
The Tulevik board call everybody in
Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.
Squad6 Nov 2028
Words at Tulevik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dylan Sandoval 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.
Squad6 Nov 2028
Kaupo Kruusmäe 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.
Squad6 Nov 2028
The manager's exit leaves Javohir Rasulov exposed
Every squad has men who were signed by a particular manager and men who were merely inherited. Javohir Rasulov is in the first group, and the man who wanted him here is no longer in the building.
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Crisis
Market9 Oct 2028
“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 The request is on a desk at Tulevik, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad9 Oct 2028
Husniddin G'afurov 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.
Squad9 Oct 2028
Sebastián López 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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Crisis
Squad19 Jun 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Lapidar Lladrovci
108 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Tulevik lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market19 Jun 2028
“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.
Match17 Jun 2028
No end in sight to Tulevik's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Tulevik has to find a result from somewhere.
Match17 Jun 2028
Tulevik cannot find the net
5 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Javohir Rasulov 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.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Words at Tulevik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Husniddin G'afurov 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.
Match17 Jun 2028
Flora left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad19 Jun 2028
The manager makes an example of René Zia
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market19 Jun 2028
He is 18, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
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Crisis
Market24 Apr 2028
“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 Tulevik, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match22 Apr 2028
No end in sight to Tulevik's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Tulevik has to find a result from somewhere.
Match22 Apr 2028
The goals have deserted Tulevik
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Tulevik can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Words at Tulevik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Husniddin G'afurov 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 Apr 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tulevik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match22 Apr 2028
Narva Trans left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad24 Apr 2028
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Squad24 Apr 2028
The manager has not finished forgetting Martin Kait's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Market24 Apr 2028
The clock does René Zia’s negotiating for him
3 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Tulevik could ask drops and the wages René Zia can ask rise.
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Uneasy
The terraces10 Apr 2028
The mood at Tulevik has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Match5 Apr 2028
Tulevik bow out of the cup
Parnu go through and Tulevik go home, 1‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Player ratings10 Apr 2028
A debut Silver Sappinen will not forget — 7.70
There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 7.70 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.
Match10 Apr 2028
Every point is an argument now for Tulevik
Position 9 and 5 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market10 Apr 2028
David Cordova 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 Tulevik can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 Apr 2028
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings10 Apr 2028
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad10 Apr 2028
Javohir Rasulov 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.
Squad10 Apr 2028
Frane Alujević 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.