Marek Sappinen

Central Defender - FCI Tallinn
13 Nov 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Marek Sappinen

58 Edition

The FCI Tallinn Chronicle

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Ken Kait damages knee ligaments — 84 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 84 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Michal Ranko 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 FCI Tallinn can pretend not to have heard.

Market

So close: Ken Hein’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Sillamae Kalev moved on, Ken Hein reports back to FCI Tallinn, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

Squad

Marek Sappinen keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” FCI Tallinn may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Tempers go at FCI Tallinn

Ken Sorga 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

Konstantin Kait signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Konstantin Kait commits to FCI Tallinn for another 2 years.

In brief

Back issues
50 Edition

The FCI Tallinn Chronicle

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Jonas Goldschadt puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at FCI Tallinn, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Marcis Savalnieks: 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.

Squad

Tempers go at FCI Tallinn

Ken Sorga 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

FCI Tallinn lose Erik Puri

25 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Marek Pikk 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 watch

Taijo Teniste counts the days

“I watch every FCI Tallinn game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Flora runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

In brief

48 Edition

The FCI Tallinn Chronicle

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

FCI Tallinn taken apart

1‑4 to Sillamae Kalev, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Market

Ken Hein 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 FCI Tallinn can pretend not to have heard.

Match

4 matches without a win for FCI Tallinn

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around FCI Tallinn are no longer polite ones.

Market

Marius Vister is a FCI Tallinn player

The fee is $25.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Tammeka drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Squad

Tempers go at FCI Tallinn

Ken Sorga 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

No hiding place for Silvester Shkalla

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Silvester Shkalla, and the manager let it.

Squad

Words at FCI Tallinn training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artur Kallaste 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.

Boardroom

Nobody left the FCI Tallinn 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.

Squad

The manager has not finished forgetting Nikita Pikk'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.

In brief

46 Edition

The FCI Tallinn Chronicle

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Joonas Kait is a FCI Tallinn player

The fee is $50.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Parnu drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Squad

Tempers go at FCI Tallinn

Ken Sorga 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

Real improvement from Jonas Goldschadt at FCI Tallinn

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jonas Goldschadt is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

The terraces

FCI Tallinn spend $50.0K on the signing the town wanted

It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $50.0K for Joonas Kait, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.

Squad

FCI Tallinn count the cost of losing Erik Puri

54 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Taijo Igonen

“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.

Market

No place for Marek Pikk in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Marek Pikk has his answer from FCI Tallinn; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Market

Tammeka are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. FCI Tallinn will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Match

Martin Dmitrijev rescues a point for FCI Tallinn

It needed Martin Dmitrijev to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Paide, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

34 Edition

The FCI Tallinn Chronicle

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules Karol Klavan out for 96 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason FCI Tallinn will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

Both of them Nikita Pikk's — 8.12

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.12, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Artur Pikk 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.

Match

FCI Tallinn come up short against Tammeka

Tammeka left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

No hiding place for Marek Pikk

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marek Pikk, and the manager let it.

Squad

Ken Hein lets one through his hands

A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.

Loan watch

Mihkel Igonen has seen enough of Tulevik

“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 FCI Tallinn, and 3 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.

Player ratings

An afternoon Marek Sappinen will want back

Marked 5.22. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.

Player ratings

Vlasi Sappinen never got going

5.22 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.

In brief