The Paide Chronicle
Squad7 Sep 2026
The knee: Marko Meerits out for 34 days
34 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Paide lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market7 Sep 2026
Michael Lilander puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Paide, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Paide close the window on a squad of their own making
15 in and 7 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Paide rebuffed over Vladislav Yatskevich
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. BATE have kept their man, and Paide go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Willian Gabriel 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Paide are still strangers to each other
7 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Marek Dmitrijev signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marek Dmitrijev commits to Paide for another 3 years.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Edgar Tur 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 Edgar Tur is on it.
Market7 Sep 2026
Window shut, Oskar Hõim still here
Paide spent the window trying to move Oskar Hõim on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.
In brief
- The dugout Marek Dmitrijev knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout The manager comes out for Oskar Hõim