Markus Klavan

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The Parnu Chronicle

14 Apr 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

22 matches without a win for Parnu

The run now stands at 22, and the questions being asked around Parnu are no longer polite ones.

The terraces

The mood at Parnu has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Market

Markus Klavan hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Parnu can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Parnu

Artem Glyak 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.

Match

Parnu come up short against FCI Tallinn

FCI Tallinn left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Denis Sadovskiy

“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.

Squad

Nikita Liivak stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Nikita Liivak and Parnu agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Interim Coach to a room that had heard them before.

Squad

Alexey Chaplygin 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.

In brief