From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market11 Jan 2027
Nomme Kalju come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Paide did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Paide
Martin Miller 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Michael Lilander, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Market4 Jan 2027
Paide say no — this time
The offer from Levadia for Ebrima Jarju was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market4 Jan 2027
Daniel Luts 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 Paide can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Jan 2027
76 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
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 Paide this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Abdourahman Badamosi and Paide agree another 5 years.
Market4 Jan 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Kristofer Piht has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Paide.
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Uneasy
Squad28 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Paide
Martin Miller 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.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages eat 128% of everything Paide 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Daniel Cabral asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Uneasy
Market21 Dec 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.
Market21 Dec 2026
Victor Hugo has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Paide they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad21 Dec 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market14 Dec 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Paide is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Paide
Martin Miller 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Stefan Puscas and Paide agree another 1 years.
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Uneasy
Market7 Dec 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Paide is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad7 Dec 2026
105 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad7 Dec 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
34 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Pa Modou Sohna commits to Paide for another 3 years.
Market7 Dec 2026
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Paide
Martin Miller 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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
153% of the income goes out in wages at Paide
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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Martin Miller
“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.
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Uneasy
Market23 Nov 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Paide, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market23 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Paide is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad23 Nov 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market16 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Paide is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Paide
Martin Miller 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
International call for Edgar Tur
Edgar Tur joins up with his country. Paide lose him for the window and would like him back in one piece.
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Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
133 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market9 Nov 2026
Only the photograph left for Oskar Hõim
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Oskar Hõim will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Paide the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad9 Nov 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.
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Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Paide
Martin Miller 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
153% of the income goes out in wages at Paide
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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Paide will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
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Uneasy
Market26 Oct 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.
Market26 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Paide is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad26 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 Paide this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 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.
Market26 Oct 2026
The name of Ebrima Jarju keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Paide say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A season on the outside for Stefan Puscas
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Paide has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
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Uneasy
Market19 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Mattias Sapp
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mattias Sapp will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Paide the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad19 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Stefan Puscas and Paide agree another 1 years.
Squad19 Oct 2026
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Paide know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Market19 Oct 2026
Experience through the door at Paide
Abdulrahman Al-Khaibary arrives at 38 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Paide would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
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Market
The Andrade story refuses to die
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Paide shop where it costs nothing
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market12 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Paide is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad12 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 Paide this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Yazan Al-Ruwaili and Paide agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Paide know 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 228% of everything Paide 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Daniel Luts and Paide agree another 3 years.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The captaincy has been taken off Michael Lilander. Paide will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Market5 Oct 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Paide know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Market28 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.
Market28 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Paide is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
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.
Loan watch28 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Paide, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Juan Gómez still has not settled
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Paide would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 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.
Market21 Sep 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Ebrima Jarju may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Market21 Sep 2026
The Andrade story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Andrade signs something — a contract at Paide or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Uneasy
Market14 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Mattias Sapp
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mattias Sapp will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Paide the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad14 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
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
The deal that would have taken Ramon Smirnov to FCI Tallinn has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Paide with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Market7 Sep 2026
Paide say no — this time
The offer from Levadia for Daniel Luts was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Paide
Juan Gómez 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Wages eat 283% of everything Paide 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Crisis
Match26 Aug 2026
Paide out of the cup
FCI Tallinn ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Market31 Aug 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad31 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.
Squad31 Aug 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The name of Daniel Luts has come up in conversations Paide were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market31 Aug 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Paide will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Shots: 10, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Juan Gómez still has not settled
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Paide would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
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Uneasy
Squad24 Aug 2026
Ebrima Jarju decides it from twelve yards
3 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match19 Aug 2026
Paide through in the cup
A 1‑1 win over Nomme Kalju, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
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.
Market24 Aug 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 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.
Squad24 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 8.56 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Juan Gómez has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Paide know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
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Steady
Market17 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Mattias Sapp has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Paide they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad17 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Paide say no — this time
The offer from Narva Trans for Pa Modou Sohna was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
No place for Oskar Hõim in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Oskar Hõim has his answer from Paide; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Daniel Cabral 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 Daniel Cabral trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market10 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Hindrek Ojamaa’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
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Steady
Market3 Aug 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Bubacarr Trawally and Paide agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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.
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Paide know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Market3 Aug 2026
24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.