Marked for Karol Mets
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market4 Jan 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 The request is on a desk at FCI Tallinn, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market4 Jan 2027
Add another name to the list: Sillamae Kalev have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Sander Klavan. The answer from FCI Tallinn has not changed — yet.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words at FCI Tallinn training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ben Martino 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Victor Hugo 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad4 Jan 2027
41 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
Karol Zenjov: 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.” FCI Tallinn have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Ben Martino 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Liliu Pikk 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 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 FCI Tallinn this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at FCI Tallinn training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vlasi 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at FCI Tallinn
5 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market14 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 FCI Tallinn, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market14 Sep 2026
The bid was some way short and FCI Tallinn did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Vlasi Antonov 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 watch14 Sep 2026
“I watch every FCI Tallinn game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Tammeka runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and FCI Tallinn will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
Market14 Sep 2026
The window shut and Vlasi Dmitrijev is still in the building
FCI Tallinn spent a month trying to move him and nobody rang back. He trains with a squad that has told him where he stands, and both sides start counting down to the next one.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad24 Aug 2026
Ben Martino is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Ben Martino: 4 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match19 Aug 2026
Narva Trans are out and FCI Tallinn go through, 0‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Market24 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 FCI Tallinn, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer from Tammeka for Nikita Vassiljev 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at FCI Tallinn training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vlasi 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Liliu Pikk 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.