The FCI Tallinn Chronicle
Match19 Aug 2026
The small margins put FCI Tallinn out
Out, 0‑1 to Narva Trans, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 10 of the 28 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Market24 Aug 2026
Karl Teniste 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Emil Yanchev 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Brent Kallaste 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Narva Trans watching Konstantin Kallaste
The interest is real enough to have reached print. FCI Tallinn have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
One moment undoes Sergei Pikk
There was one mistake and it ended in the net. Defenders are judged on the worst thing they did rather than on the eighty-nine minutes either side of it, which is unfair and is also the job.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Martin Kait stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Martin Kait and FCI Tallinn agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Artur Zenjov
“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.
In brief
- Player ratings Joonas Puri runs at them all day
- Player ratings Off the pace: Taijo Kruglov
- Player ratings Karl Teniste could not find anything