The FCI Tallinn Chronicle
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Jacob Kasemaa is a medical away from FCI Tallinn
The deal with Tulevik is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Henrique Neves will not be coming to FCI Tallinn
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Sillamae Kalev is saying, and nobody at FCI Tallinn is enjoying the guessing.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Aleksander Iljin signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Aleksander Iljin and FCI Tallinn agree another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move Kirill Chernyak would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Kirill Chernyak is living that version at FCI Tallinn, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ruslan Teverov 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
FCI Tallinn rebuffed over Thomas Lisboa
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Tammeka have kept their man, and FCI Tallinn go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Liliu Ojamaa steps up from the FCI Tallinn academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Liliu Ojamaa has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Marek Kait steps up from the FCI Tallinn academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Marek Kait has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Markus Kait joins the FCI Tallinn first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Markus Kait is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market FCI Tallinn promote Liliu Marin from within
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Aleksander Iljin
- Squad Vladislav Ignatjev needs a bigger stage