Marked for Markus Igonen
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Squad19 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Parnu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Erik Zetterberg 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.
Squad19 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 Parnu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Parnu
Joonas Zenjov 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Siphamandla Sabelo 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
17 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
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Market7 Sep 2026
Markus Igonen 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Siphamandla Sabelo 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.
Squad7 Sep 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 Parnu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Khalid Shakhtiev, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
This league is too small for Kaur Kivila
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Parnu will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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 Khalid Shakhtiev.
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
Artur Sorga is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Artur Sorga: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match19 Aug 2026
The small margins put Parnu out
Out, 0‑0 to Flora, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market24 Aug 2026
Erik Klavan 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.
Squad24 Aug 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 Parnu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Siphamandla Sabelo 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
45 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market24 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Tulevik have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Silver Teniste. The answer from Parnu has not changed — yet.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Zeki Aliev misses from twelve yards
It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Markus Igonen 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move Zeki Aliev would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Zeki Aliev is living that version at Parnu, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Siphamandla Sabelo and Parnu agree another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Parnu
Khalid Shakhtiev 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 Aug 2026
Words at Parnu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Siphamandla Sabelo 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Parnu and Artur Kats are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.