From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Gerdo Juhkam out for 84 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Paide will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Momodou Jobarteh and Paide agree another 4 years.
Market12 Oct 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Erik Marin 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
5 Paide players away with their countries
The training ground goes quiet for a fortnight. 5 men have gone off to be somebody else’s players, and the manager is left with the ones nobody has called.
Loan watch12 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 Paide, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
91 days out for Gerdo Juhkam after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Paide will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Paide
Daniel Cabral 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Paide training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Siim Luts 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.
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Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
98 days out for Gerdo Juhkam after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Paide will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad28 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 Paide this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Martin Miller, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
105 days out for Gerdo Juhkam after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Paide will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Paide
Daniel Cabral and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Henri Anier is still paying for one afternoon at Paide
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
112 days out for Gerdo Juhkam after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Paide will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Loan watch14 Sep 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 Paide, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Siim Luts 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.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
Gerdo Juhkam breaks a bone — 120 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 120 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 11 in, 5 out at Paide
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 11 arrived, 5 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad7 Sep 2026
International break empties Paide
5 call-ups is a compliment to the squad and a headache for the man running it. He will get them back in a fortnight, tired, in various states of repair.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Paide
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Siim Luts was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The captaincy has been taken off Henri Anier. Paide will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
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Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
128 days out for Gerdo Juhkam after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Paide will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Brest have kept their man, and Paide go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Paide
6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
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Crisis
Match19 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Paide
0‑2 against Nomme Kalju, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Ebrima Jarju
“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.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Artur Pikk left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Siim Luts 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
1 error, one goal, and a night in front of the same three seconds. He will see it tonight, tomorrow and probably in February, and everybody who has played knows exactly which frame he keeps stopping on.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Henri Anier is still paying for one afternoon at Paide
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Paide pick somebody else ahead of Edgar Tur
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Paide people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market17 Aug 2026
The name of Henrik Ojamaa has come up in conversations Paide were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Paide
Daniel Cabral 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Paide people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Daniel Cabral commits to Paide for another 3 years.
Squad10 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 Paide this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Artur Igonen 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Martin Miller commits to Paide for another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Paide
Daniel Cabral 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 targets3 Aug 2026
Paide asked and Ryazan said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Paide have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market3 Aug 2026
Nobody at Paide has picked up the phone to Ebrima Jarju
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Paide training over how hard people work
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Squad
Paide are still strangers to each other
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The dugout
Daniel Cabral knocks on the manager’s door
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Market
No place for Mattias Sapp in the plan