The Kuressaare Chronicle
Market13 Dec 2027
Mathias Palts 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 The request is on a desk at Kuressaare, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Karl-Romet Nõmm in a row with a teammate
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.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Zakaria Beglarishvili 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.
Market13 Dec 2027
Joonas Pikk steps up from the Kuressaare academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Joonas Pikk 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.
Market13 Dec 2027
Kuressaare promote Markus Pikk from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Markus Pikk 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.
Market13 Dec 2027
Kuressaare promote Erik Vassiljev from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Erik Vassiljev 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.
The dugout13 Dec 2027
The manager makes an example of Andero Kivi
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout13 Dec 2027
Karl-Romet Nõmm has become a man the manager trusts
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.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Kaspar Laur is not doing himself any favours
A manager forgives a bad Saturday far more readily than a bad Tuesday, because one of them he can explain and the other one he chose. The reports this week have not been good.
In brief
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Mathias Palts
- Squad Ander Ott Valge back in training