Danilo Gomes

Striker - Paide
20 Apr 2031
Sunday
Process

Marked for Danilo Gomes

185 Edition

The Paide Chronicle

11 Feb 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Paide are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 39 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market

Only the photograph left for Danila Manyak

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Danila Manyak will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Paide the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Paide count the cost of losing José Vieira

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

Transfer targets

Paide rebuffed over Bogdan Kostić

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sturm Graz have kept their man, and Paide go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

A falling-out at Paide

Vlasi Kait and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

No hiding place for Konstantin Kallaste

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

In brief

Back issues
174 Edition

The Paide Chronicle

26 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Paide

Daniel Cabral 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.

The dugout

Ebrima Jarju gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Ebrima Jarju is on it.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Ivan Korzhenevskiy

“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

157 Edition

The Paide Chronicle

30 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Vlasi Kait

29 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Paide lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Paide are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 39 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

The dugout

Rok Cerin: 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.” Paide have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Transfer targets

Malik Pimpong turns down Paide

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Eintracht Frankfurt keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Transfer targets

Paide rebuffed over Nick Oyekunle

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Southampton have kept their man, and Paide go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Mark Maksimkin 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 Paide this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Paide ask about Stavros Pnevmonidis

A loan enquiry to Olympiacos: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Transfer targets

Paide try to borrow Dejvid Hoxha

Panetolikos have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

The dugout

Aston Saravanan gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Aston Saravanan is on it.

In brief