Marked for Viktor Plotnikov
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Nõmme United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Andre Frolov 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 Andre Frolov is on it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
He looks like a man who lives here now rather than one who is working here. It took most of a season, and at Nõmme United the difference is visible from the back of the stand.
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Uneasy
Market5 Oct 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Nõmme United can pretend not to have heard.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Nõmme United can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Koen Oostenbrink 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Nõmme United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Henri Järvelaid 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 37 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Nõmme United is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 147% of everything Nõmme United earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Nomme Kalju come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Nõmme United did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $40.0K — a club that wants Fjodor Jekimov enough to be asked twice.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Hendrik Vainu and Nõmme United agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market10 Aug 2026
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Tristan Hoffmann is a Nõmme United player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The offer went to Vaprus this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Koen Oostenbrink and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Nõmme United offered $95.0K; Nomme Kalju said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Liliu Kallaste 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Karl Dmitrijev 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.