Karol Klavan

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24 Oct 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Karol Klavan

49 Edition

The FCI Tallinn Chronicle

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

FCI Tallinn refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 28 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Player ratings

Brando Castillo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at FCI Tallinn

Taijo 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.

Squad

Words at FCI Tallinn training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ricardo Quiñónez 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 ratings

A masterclass from Hunter Olson

Marked 8.26 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Match

Honours even between FCI Tallinn and Levadia

2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Boardroom

FCI Tallinn sign 4 boys into the academy

None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.

Squad

Hunter Olson named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Hunter Olson is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

Squad

FCI Tallinn keep their word to Karol Klavan

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

In brief

Back issues
24 Edition

The FCI Tallinn Chronicle

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $22.0K sale of Vlasi Mets

He is going to Parnu, the club has $22.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Squad

Hunter Olson 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.

Market

Vlasi Mets moves on

Parnu pay $22.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Market

The shop window has Frank Ainsalu in it

FCI Tallinn have let the market know Frank Ainsalu can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

Squad

Ilja Petukhov asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Squad

Frank Puri loses a friend at FCI Tallinn

The move was somebody else's story. What it left behind was a dressing-room stall nobody has taken and a player who keeps looking at it.

In brief