The Vaprus Gazette
Boardroom2 Feb 2032
Deadline passes with 1 signed and 5 gone
That is the business done at Vaprus until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Market2 Feb 2032
Eduard Noyok’s move to Tallinna Kalev falls through
The deal that would have taken Eduard Noyok to Tallinna Kalev has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Vaprus with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad2 Feb 2032
A falling-out at Vaprus
Tristan Pajo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets2 Feb 2032
Door shut on Mikhail Sachkovskiy
Vaprus asked and Flora said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad2 Feb 2032
Words at Vaprus training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Usalifa Indi 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.
Transfer targets2 Feb 2032
Deadline beats Vaprus to Konstantin Kait
The clock did what Nomme Kalju would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Squad2 Feb 2032
Karol Mets pulls a muscle — 15 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 15 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Transfer targets2 Feb 2032
Vaprus try to borrow Vuk Matejić
Flora have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
The dugout2 Feb 2032
Tristan Pajo 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 Tristan Pajo is on it.
In brief
- Market Nobody at Vaprus has picked up the phone to Aleksander Filatov
- Market Mattias Sapp leaves for nothing
- Market Magomed-Deni Tsutsulaev leaves for nothing