Marek Klavan

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The Elva Gazette

14 May 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match14 May 2035

Elva up to position 3

22 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Player ratings14 May 2035

Aliaksandr Malevich, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.99

A mark of 7.99 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad14 May 2035

A falling-out at Elva

Daniil Tarassenkov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match12 May 2035

Elva are at home on the road

4 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.

Squad14 May 2035

A row about effort at Elva

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Robert Veering was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match12 May 2035

Elva find a way past Viimsi

Viimsi made Elva work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces14 May 2035

The crowd has taken to Aliaksandr Malevich

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Looking ahead14 May 2035

Elva and Tallinna Kalev meet at the summit

The fixture the rest of the division is looking forward to more than either of the sides in it. Both know a win changes the season and a defeat does not end it, which is what makes it hard to play.

The dugout14 May 2035

Brent Ojamaa faces a manager he fell out with

They have worked together before and it did not end well. Nobody at Elva expects the new manager to have forgotten, least of all Brent Ojamaa.

In brief

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The Elva Gazette

12 Feb 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom12 Feb 2035

Mjondalen come asking about Hendrik Puri

Elva did not want this conversation and are having it anyway. A manager wanted elsewhere is a manager whose next contract talk just became more expensive.

The dugout12 Feb 2035

Martin Seppik faces a manager he fell out with

They have worked together before and it did not end well. Nobody at Elva expects the new manager to have forgotten, least of all Martin Seppik.

Squad12 Feb 2035

Tempers go at Elva

Zsolt Doktor 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.

Transfer targets12 Feb 2035

Taijo Klavan stays at Nomme Kalju as time runs out

A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Elva will try again when the window opens; Nomme Kalju may not be selling by then.

Squad12 Feb 2035

A row about effort at Elva

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Joosep Põder was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Boardroom12 Feb 2035

109% of the income goes out in wages at Elva

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Squad12 Feb 2035

This league is too small for Joosep Põder

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Elva will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

The dugout12 Feb 2035

When it matters, Robert Veering plays

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.

Market12 Feb 2035

Elva and Karl Gustav Kokka are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief