Marked for Mihkel Kallaste
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Flora, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The deal with Sillamae Kalev died in the treatment room. Nobody will say what was found and everybody in the game will find out by Friday.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Levadia asked and Sillamae Kalev said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Levadia that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
Squad31 Aug 2026
He goes off to be somebody else’s player for a fortnight. Levadia lose him for the window and would like him returned in the condition he left.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Levadia will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
Back issues
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Crisis
Match19 Aug 2026
Levadia out of the cup
Tammeka ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
$460.0K on the table at Flora. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Levadia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mikhail Sivakov 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 ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Neman have kept their man, and Levadia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Rauno Mets left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mihkel Kallaste and Levadia agree another 3 years.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The plan did not have a place for Eduard Zhevnerov
Nobody at Levadia is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Off the academy pitches and onto a senior team sheet at 19. The debut is the easy part; the second appearance is the one every young player has to earn.
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Steady
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Sillamae Kalev keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Mikhail Sivakov 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Levadia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Karnitskiy 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Santos: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Neman 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
No place for Taijo Teniste in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Levadia are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Squad17 Aug 2026
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Levadia know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Market17 Aug 2026
A season-long audition: Sillamae Kalev still own him, but the shirt and the minutes are Levadia's to give. A loan is a bet both clubs believe they are winning.
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Steady
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Mihkel Tamm
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Levadia have done the hard part with Sillamae Kalev, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Evgeniy Voyna commits to Levadia for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Levadia
Mikhail Sivakov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mihkel Kallaste has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Frank Tamm has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Marek Puri joins the Levadia first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marek Puri is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.