Marked for Yevhen Opanasenko
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Feb 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Bogdan Vaštšuk 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
Joonas Puri has left for Tulevik in a $12.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad1 Feb 2027
The medical room confirms 53 days on the sidelines for Sander Zenjov, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market1 Feb 2027
Add another name to the list: Tulevik have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Artur Liivak. The answer from Sillamae Kalev has not changed — yet.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Sillamae Kalev would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market4 Jan 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad4 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sillamae Kalev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market4 Jan 2027
No place for Taijo Igonen in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Taijo Igonen has his answer from Sillamae Kalev; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market26 Oct 2026
Karol Liivak 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 Sillamae Kalev can pretend not to have heard.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Alexandr Seraskhov 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.
Loan watch26 Oct 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Sillamae Kalev, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market7 Sep 2026
So close: Brent Ojamaa’s move dies late
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Narva Trans moved on, Brent Ojamaa reports back to Sillamae Kalev, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Squad7 Sep 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 Sillamae Kalev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexandr Seraskhov, and the manager let it.
Market7 Sep 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Sillamae Kalev, another week without a signature from Alexandr Seraskhov.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Nikita Klavan and Sillamae Kalev agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad3 Aug 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 Sillamae Kalev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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. Sillamae Kalev will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Artur Liivak commits to Sillamae Kalev for another 1 years.
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Frank Sappinen knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Frank Sappinen trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market3 Aug 2026
Mihkel Kallaste is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Sillamae Kalev has been clear about where Mihkel Kallaste stands, which is more than many ever get.