The FCI Tallinn Chronicle
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at FCI Tallinn training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ivan Korzhenevskiy 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
One of our own: Martin Baranov joins the FCI Tallinn first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Martin Baranov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market14 Dec 2026
A stepping stone, not a home, for Mal Januzi
He is doing his job and he is not settling. FCI Tallinn were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Mal Januzi signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mal Januzi commits to FCI Tallinn for another 3 years.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
When it matters, Aleksander Iljin plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market14 Dec 2026
Talks stall between FCI Tallinn and Matvey Kudryavtsev
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
In brief
- Squad Mal Januzi is a square peg at FCI Tallinn
- The dugout Matvey Kudryavtsev asks for a word with the manager
- Squad Somebody is after Marek Mets’s shirt