The clubs have shaken hands with Flora; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Kuressaare training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Siim Aer 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.
Benjamin Dalipi 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.
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.
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Markus Pikk's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
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.
He is 20, and nobody at Kuressaare signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Vladislav Zaytsev and Kuressaare agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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.
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sander Kapper commits to Kuressaare for another 2 years.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Kuressaare training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Siim Aer 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.
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.
Roland Lukas and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kuressaare this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Kuressaare training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Siim Aer 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.
Words at Kuressaare training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Siim Aer 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.
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Kuressaare will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Kuressaare will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
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.
In brief
The dugoutThe manager has not finished forgetting Markus Pikk's mistake
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kuressaare this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Kuressaare training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michael Udebuluzor 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.
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Kuressaare will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
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 Andero Kivi is on it.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Markus Pikk is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Kuressaare have done the hard part with Gornik Leczna, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Siim Aer was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Nobody at Kuressaare will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Markus Pikk is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
A 2‑1 win over Harju JK Laagri, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.66, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A first appearance Rico Piil will want to forget — 5.79
Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.79, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.
Karl-Romet Nõmm and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
$14.0K on the table at Narva Trans. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Kuressaare training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michael Udebuluzor 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.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Gregor Rõivassepp has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Kuressaare know it, and so does everybody who watches him.