From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad1 Nov 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Tammeka can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad1 Nov 2027
David Epton in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tammeka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Nov 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Chilem Williams Ignatius and Tammeka agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Steady
Squad25 Oct 2027
A falling-out at Tammeka
Pavel Marin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Words at Tammeka training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oliver Kangaslahti 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.
The dugout25 Oct 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Steady
Squad18 Oct 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 Tammeka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Oct 2027
A row about effort at Tammeka
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Thomas Lisboa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
Pavel Marin has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Tammeka will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
Simon Kocka 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.
Market18 Oct 2027
The name of Osman Koroma keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Tammeka say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
David Epton keeps his manager's vote
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: David Epton plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
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Steady
Squad11 Oct 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Tammeka can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Luciano Sanchez 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.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
Mairo Miil has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Tammeka will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Antoni Kociniewski 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.
Match11 Oct 2027
Tammeka have something to play for
Position 4 on 28 points, and the places that carry a European ticket are close enough to count. Seasons like this are decided by two results in April, and the club knows which two.
Market11 Oct 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Tristan Koskor signs something — a contract at Tammeka or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
From our football correspondent
Steady
The dugout4 Oct 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Tammeka may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Pedro Manoel and Tammeka agree another 4 years.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Words exchanged at Tammeka
Luciano Sanchez 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.
Squad4 Oct 2027
A row about effort at Tammeka
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Thomas Lisboa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout4 Oct 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Godfred Boakye, and the manager let it.
The dugout4 Oct 2027
David Epton knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Tammeka, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad27 Sep 2027
A falling-out at Tammeka
Luciano Sanchez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Oliver Kangaslahti 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.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Ander Ott Valge
“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 dugout27 Sep 2027
“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.
Market27 Sep 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Fadiga Badjie’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Squad20 Sep 2027
Oliwier Szymański is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad20 Sep 2027
26 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad20 Sep 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 Tammeka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets20 Sep 2027
The window shuts on the Dinārs Ekharts deal
Tammeka ran out of time with Tallinna Kalev. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Oliver Kangaslahti 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.
The dugout20 Sep 2027
When it matters, Pavel Marin plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Steady
The dugout13 Sep 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Luciano Sanchez 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 targets13 Sep 2027
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Tammeka will try again when the window opens; Vaprus may not be selling by then.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Thomas Lisboa 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.
The dugout13 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Osman Koroma
“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 dugout13 Sep 2027
When it matters, Mairo Miil plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market13 Sep 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Antoni Kociniewski has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Tammeka.
The dugout13 Sep 2027
Rasmus Kallas 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 Rasmus Kallas trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Match13 Sep 2027
Tammeka have something to play for
Position 4 on 28 points, and the places that carry a European ticket are close enough to count. Seasons like this are decided by two results in April, and the club knows which two.
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Steady
Market6 Sep 2027
“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 Tammeka, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout6 Sep 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Tammeka may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Tammeka close the window on a squad of their own making
21 in and 9 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Transfer targets6 Sep 2027
Everything agreed with Tallinna Kalev, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets6 Sep 2027
$260.0K on the table at Vaprus. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad6 Sep 2027
A muscle injury sidelines Thomas Lisboa for 16 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Tammeka will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad6 Sep 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Simon Kocka commits to Tammeka for another 3 years.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Words exchanged at Tammeka
Luciano Sanchez 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Oliver Kangaslahti 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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Crisis
Match25 Aug 2027
The cup run ends for Tammeka
0‑4 against Flora, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
The terraces30 Aug 2027
A cup hiding at Flora leaves Tammeka explaining themselves
0-4, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
Ander Ott Valge: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Tammeka have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Tammeka
Luciano Sanchez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Tristan Koskor
“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.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
Nobody left the Tammeka dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑4, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Tammeka
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dániel Kalmár was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
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 Muhammed Hydara is on it.
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Steady
Market23 Aug 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Tammeka can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
The deal with Vaprus is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad23 Aug 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 Tammeka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Aug 2027
“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 Tammeka know it.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Thomas Lisboa 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.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
David Epton gets it from the manager
“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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Steady
The dugout16 Aug 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Tammeka have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Luciano Sanchez 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 targets16 Aug 2027
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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Oliver Kangaslahti 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
“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 Tammeka know it.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
A loan enquiry to Narva Trans: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
When it matters, Mairo Miil plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
“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.
Match16 Aug 2027
Tammeka have something to play for
Position 4 on 28 points, and the places that carry a European ticket are close enough to count. Seasons like this are decided by two results in April, and the club knows which two.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad9 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Tammeka
Luciano Sanchez 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Tammeka can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Osman Koroma and Tammeka agree another 3 years.
Squad9 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Tammeka
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Oliver Kangaslahti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
A loan move for Daniil Pareiko is in the works
Tammeka have made the call to Narva Trans. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Rafael Melo
“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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
The dugout2 Aug 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Tammeka may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad2 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Tammeka
Luciano Sanchez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Osman Koroma and Tammeka agree another 3 years.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Thomas Lisboa 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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
A month that belonged to Simon Kocka
The young player of the month award goes to a 20-year-old at Tammeka who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.
The dugout2 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Rasmus Kallas
“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.
Transfer targets2 Aug 2027
A loan enquiry to Narva Trans: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Market2 Aug 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Ander Ott Valge has his answer from Tammeka; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout2 Aug 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Steady
Market26 Jul 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Tammeka people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Squad26 Jul 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 Tammeka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Oliver Kangaslahti 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.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
Pavel Marin has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Tammeka will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
Tomasz Dusik gets it from the manager
“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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Tammeka will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
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Steady
Squad19 Jul 2027
Luciano Sanchez 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 Jul 2027
Oliver Kangaslahti 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.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Narva Trans have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
“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.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
When it matters, Mairo Miil plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Squad19 Jul 2027
A Tammeka teenager takes the young player award
Simon Kocka is 20, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.
Match19 Jul 2027
Tammeka in the hunt for Europe
Position 4, 28 points, and a run-in that decides whether next season has Thursday nights in it. Nobody is calling it a race yet, which is what people say during one.
Market19 Jul 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Tristan Koskor signs something — a contract at Tammeka or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Upbeat
Match12 Jul 2027
Full time on the season at Tammeka
Position 4 on 28 points. Every season is a story and this is the last line of it, and now the club has three months to decide what the next one is about.
Squad12 Jul 2027
8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at Tammeka
Luciano Sanchez 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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Pedro Manoel and Tammeka agree another 5 years.
Player ratings12 Jul 2027
Marked 6.88 on 12 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
The terraces12 Jul 2027
The crowd has taken to Simon Kocka
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match10 Jul 2027
Paide made Tammeka work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Thomas Lisboa 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 ratings12 Jul 2027
A performance of 8.02 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
From our football correspondent
Steady
The dugout5 Jul 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad5 Jul 2027
A falling-out at Tammeka
Luciano Sanchez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Rasmus Kallas and Tammeka agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match3 Jul 2027
0‑2 to FCI Levadia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad5 Jul 2027
A row about effort at Tammeka
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Oliver Kangaslahti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout5 Jul 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tristan Koskor, and the manager let it.
Squad5 Jul 2027
The award goes to Luciano Sanchez, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.
The dugout5 Jul 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Sergei Tamm after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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Upbeat
Squad28 Jun 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 Tammeka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
Tammeka asked and Nomme Kalju said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces28 Jun 2027
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match26 Jun 2027
Kuressaare made Tammeka work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
Luciano Sanchez was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.53. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.17, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Oliver Kangaslahti 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.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑0, Sergei Tamm could afford to be generous.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
Pavel Marin 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 Pavel Marin is on it.
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Steady
Squad21 Jun 2027
12 saves: Simon Kocka was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 12 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match16 Jun 2027
Cup progress for Tammeka
A 1‑1 win over FCI Levadia, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Squad21 Jun 2027
Luciano Sanchez 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 Jun 2027
Business is business: Richard Aland goes
Paide paid $23.0K and Tammeka took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
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.
Match19 Jun 2027
Flora left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Words at Tammeka training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Henrique Maranhão 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.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
“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.
Boardroom21 Jun 2027
Doors closed at Tammeka
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
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Upbeat
Market14 Jun 2027
“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 Tammeka, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
Up for the corner, and Thomas Lisboa delivers — 7.71
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Thomas Lisboa scored, was marked 7.71, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Words exchanged at Tammeka
Luciano Sanchez 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.
Market14 Jun 2027
The Richard Aland conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Paide will make the call about Richard Aland this week. Tammeka have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Squad14 Jun 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Henrique Maranhão commits to Tammeka for another 3 years.
Match12 Jun 2027
Three points for Tammeka, 2‑1 the final word against Tallinna Kalev in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces14 Jun 2027
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Words at Tammeka training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oliver Kangaslahti 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market7 Jun 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.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Tammeka may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad7 Jun 2027
A falling-out at Tammeka
Luciano Sanchez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Jun 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Tammeka can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Match5 Jun 2027
Vaprus made Tammeka work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Words at Tammeka training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oliver Kangaslahti 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.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Luciano Sanchez was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.06. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Rafael Melo
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad31 May 2027
8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Boardroom31 May 2027
Tammeka have received the call every well-run club eventually receives — somebody bigger has noticed Sergei Tamm. Saying no is easy; keeping him convinced is the actual work.
Squad31 May 2027
Words exchanged at Tammeka
Richard Aland 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.
Squad31 May 2027
A row about effort at Tammeka
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Henrique Maranhão was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings31 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout31 May 2027
Half-satisfied: Sergei Tamm on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Match29 May 2027
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Narva Trans came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
The dugout31 May 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Looking ahead31 May 2027
Vaprus next, and one man in the Tammeka dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad24 May 2027
A falling-out at Tammeka
Richard Aland and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad24 May 2027
A row about effort at Tammeka
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Oliver Kangaslahti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom24 May 2027
Nobody left the Tammeka dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Player ratings24 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout24 May 2027
Mairo Miil has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Tammeka will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout24 May 2027
Sergei Tamm: “We have to be better”
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The dugout24 May 2027
“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.
Match22 May 2027
Tammeka and Elva cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Elva came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Looking ahead24 May 2027
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Narva Trans in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
The dugout17 May 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Tammeka may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad17 May 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 Tammeka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match15 May 2027
Nomme Kalju made Tammeka work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces17 May 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Luciano Sanchez has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad17 May 2027
A row about effort at Tammeka
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Oliver Kangaslahti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings17 May 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.94 on the card, and the Tammeka support went home talking about one name.
Squad17 May 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mikk Markus Jänes and Tammeka agree another 3 years.
The dugout17 May 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Sergei Tamm kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout17 May 2027
Pavel Marin has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Tammeka will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad10 May 2027
Richard Aland 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.
Match8 May 2027
Tammeka cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Match8 May 2027
A bad afternoon for Tammeka against Paide
0‑2 to Paide, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout10 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Richard Aland
“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.
Squad10 May 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Thomas Lisboa commits to Tammeka for another 4 years.
Squad10 May 2027
Henrique Maranhão 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 ratings10 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match10 May 2027
Tammeka at the halfway mark
Half the programme played, position 5, 11 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
Boardroom10 May 2027
Nobody left the Tammeka dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Boardroom3 May 2027
MEAP Nisou have made their interest known and Tammeka have to have a conversation they never wanted. A manager other clubs ask about is a manager whose next contract costs more.
Squad3 May 2027
Words exchanged at Tammeka
Richard Aland 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.
Match1 May 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad3 May 2027
Words at Tammeka training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oliver Kangaslahti 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.
The dugout3 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Tanel Lang
“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 dugout3 May 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Sergei Tamm after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout3 May 2027
Richard Aland 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.
Looking ahead3 May 2027
The leaders are next for Tammeka
Paide top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.
Squad3 May 2027
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Tammeka will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad26 Apr 2027
A falling-out at Tammeka
Richard Aland and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Words at Tammeka training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oliver Kangaslahti 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.
Boardroom26 Apr 2027
Doors closed at Tammeka
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
Mairo Miil has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Tammeka will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Rasmus Kallas
“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 dugout26 Apr 2027
Sergei Tamm: “We have to be better”
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
Richard Aland 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 Richard Aland trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Match24 Apr 2027
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Kuressaare will be the happier side with the point.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad19 Apr 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad19 Apr 2027
A falling-out at Tammeka
Richard Aland and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match17 Apr 2027
Flora made Tammeka work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces19 Apr 2027
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Marked 8.10 — 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Henrique Maranhão 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.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
“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.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Too much change too quickly at Tammeka
15 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.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
Pavel Marin gets picked when it counts
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Looking ahead
Mairo Miil faces his old club
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad12 Apr 2027
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Words exchanged at Tammeka
Richard Aland 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Tammeka can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Match10 Apr 2027
Three points for Tammeka, 1‑0 the final word against Tallinna Kalev in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad12 Apr 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Pedro Manoel and Tammeka agree another 5 years.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Rafael Melo
“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.
Boardroom12 Apr 2027
Nobody left the Tammeka dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Sergei Tamm kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match31 Mar 2027
Cup progress for Tammeka
A 5‑4 win over Tallinna Kalev, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
A brace, and Fadiga Badjie takes the afternoon — 8.61
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Fadiga Badjie provided it, and the 8.61 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
No sign of nerves from Dániel Kalmár at 20 — 8.06
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Dániel Kalmár did not need any: 8.06, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad5 Apr 2027
A one-man rearguard from Simon Kocka
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match31 Mar 2027
9 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Tammeka and Tallinna Kalev in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Richard Aland 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.
The terraces5 Apr 2027
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match3 Apr 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad29 Mar 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 Tammeka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Marek Petrúfka is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Words at Tammeka training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Henrique Maranhão 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.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
“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.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Mairo Miil has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Tammeka will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Looking ahead29 Mar 2027
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Vaprus in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Squad29 Mar 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 Tammeka would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Simon Kocka 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.
Market29 Mar 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Osman Koroma’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market22 Mar 2027
Richard Aland 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 Tammeka can pretend not to have heard.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 19 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad22 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Tammeka
Richard Aland and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Pavel Marin beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match20 Mar 2027
Narva Trans left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Richard Aland
“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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Words at Tammeka training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Henrique Maranhão 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.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
Pavel Marin has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Tammeka will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 33. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 26 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Tammeka
Richard Aland 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.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tanel Lang, and the manager let it.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Tammeka are still strangers to each other
16 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
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 Muhammed Hydara is on it.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
Half-satisfied: Sergei Tamm on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Squad15 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Tammeka
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sten Patrick Prunn was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
Mairo Miil 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 Mairo Miil trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
The dugout8 Mar 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Tammeka will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.41, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad8 Mar 2027
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Richard Aland 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.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
4 academy graduates step up at Tammeka
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Match6 Mar 2027
A 2‑1 win over Nomme Kalju, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces8 Mar 2027
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Market8 Mar 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Taijo Teniste 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad1 Mar 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 41 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Wojciech Zacharewicz has just signed for Tammeka, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad1 Mar 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 Tammeka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Words at Tammeka training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Henrique Maranhão 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.
Market1 Mar 2027
He is 20, and nobody at Tammeka signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
Mairo Miil 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 Mairo Miil is on it.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
Pedro Manoel gets it from the manager
“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.
Looking ahead1 Mar 2027
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Pavel Marin’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Tammeka needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Market1 Mar 2027
“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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad22 Feb 2027
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Tammeka will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Tammeka
Richard Aland and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A move Dániel Kalmár would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Dániel Kalmár is living that version at Tammeka, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Godfred Boakye pulls a muscle — 16 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 16 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Market22 Feb 2027
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.
Market22 Feb 2027
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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad15 Feb 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tammeka will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Tammeka
Richard Aland 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A move Henrique Maranhão would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Henrique Maranhão is living that version at Tammeka, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Tammeka
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Oliver Kangaslahti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market15 Feb 2027
Michał Malinowski is 20, and Tammeka have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Market15 Feb 2027
Maksymilian Szady is 20, and Tammeka have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Richard Aland 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Antoni Kociniewski has, at Tammeka, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Flora will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Stefan Tšendei has pre-agreed a move to Tammeka, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Oliver Kangaslahti 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Tammeka are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Market8 Feb 2027
He signed expecting a bigger stage than the one he found. It has not taken long, and it has not taken the dressing room long to notice either.
Market8 Feb 2027
Marek Petrúfka is 20, and Tammeka have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Market8 Feb 2027
He is 19, 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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Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Window shuts: 4 in, 2 out at Tammeka
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 4 arrived, 2 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad1 Feb 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 Tammeka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Tammeka asked and KDV Tomsk said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Mairo Miil
“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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Tammeka
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Giacomo Uggeri was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market1 Feb 2027
He is 18, and nobody at Tammeka signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market1 Feb 2027
Simon Kocka is 20, and Tammeka have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
When it matters, Mairo Miil plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad1 Feb 2027
No place for Daniel Manolev in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Tammeka are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
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Market25 Jan 2027
“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 Tammeka, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Tammeka
Richard Aland and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Tammeka asked and Amkar said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Sten Patrick Prunn and Tammeka agree another 3 years.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Pavel Marin 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 Pavel Marin is on it.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Mairo Miil 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 Mairo Miil trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Competition arrives for Mairo Miil
A new face in his position and a shirt he thought he owned suddenly up for discussion. Tammeka have promised nothing, which is what clubs promise at this stage.
Market25 Jan 2027
Tammeka shop where it costs nothing
Sten Patrick Prunn signs, and the fee column stays empty. Deals like this look small in July and clever by March — or they are never mentioned again.
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Market18 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Pavel Marin in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tammeka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market18 Jan 2027
Harju JK Laagri pay $32.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. São Bernardo have kept their man, and Tammeka go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Tammeka
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Patrick Genro Veelma was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Market11 Jan 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Narva Trans waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Tammeka is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Laurits Õunpuu is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Tammeka asked and Volgar said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Tristan Koskor 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.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Tammeka training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Patrick Genro Veelma 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.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
São Bernardo have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Market11 Jan 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Tammeka will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Market11 Jan 2027
Tammeka have made Richard Aland available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Market4 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Tammeka can pretend not to have heard.
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 Tammeka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Nomme Kalju have kept their man, and Tammeka go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
A loan move for Maksim Pavlov is in the works
Tammeka have made the call to Nomme Kalju. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
A loan enquiry to Nomme Kalju: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
When it matters, Mairo Miil plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Richard Aland has moved up it.
Market4 Jan 2027
Tammeka have made Herman Pedmanson available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
Open for business: Tammeka enter the window
The registration window is open and the phone has started. Between now and the deadline this club will be linked with forty players and sign three, which is the usual ratio.
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Market28 Dec 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 Tammeka can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Pavel Marin 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Tammeka training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Patrick Genro Veelma 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.
The dugout28 Dec 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.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Pavel Marin 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 Pavel Marin is on it.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Tanel Lang has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Tanel Lang has written the date down.
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Market21 Dec 2026
Mattis Karis has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Tammeka they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Tammeka
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Patrick Genro Veelma was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Fadiga Badjie 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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Muhammed Hydara has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Tammeka will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Tristan Koskor knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Tammeka, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
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Squad14 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Fadiga Badjie commits to Tammeka for another 3 years.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Tammeka
Fadiga Badjie 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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Herman Pedmanson, and the manager let it.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Mairo Miil 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 Mairo Miil trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Tanel Lang has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Tanel Lang has written the date down.
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Squad7 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Herman Pedmanson commits to Tammeka for another 4 years.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Tammeka training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Patrick Genro Veelma 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.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Tanel Lang
“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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Market30 Nov 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 Tammeka can pretend not to have heard.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Pavel Marin 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Tammeka
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Giacomo Uggeri was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Pavel Marin 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 Pavel Marin is on it.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Tanel Lang has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Tanel Lang has written the date down.
Market30 Nov 2026
1 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Tammeka money.
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Market23 Nov 2026
Only the photograph left for Mattis Karis
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mattis Karis will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Tammeka the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom23 Nov 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. David Epton has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Tammeka
Tristan Koskor 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.
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Market16 Nov 2026
Only the photograph left for David Epton
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. David Epton will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Tammeka the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad16 Nov 2026
15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tristan Koskor 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
Words at Tammeka training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Patrick Genro Veelma 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.
The dugout16 Nov 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
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 Giacomo Uggeri is on it.
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Squad9 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Tammeka
Pavel Marin 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Tammeka training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Patrick Genro Veelma 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
When it matters, Mairo Miil plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Tristan Koskor
“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.
Loan watch2 Nov 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 Tammeka, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad2 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 Tammeka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Pavel Marin 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 Pavel Marin is on it.
The dugout2 Nov 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 Tammeka, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market2 Nov 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
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Market26 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Tammeka is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Tammeka
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Patrick Genro Veelma was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Muhammed Hydara has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Tammeka will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Tammeka
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Patrick Genro Veelma was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Tammeka
Fadiga Badjie 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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Reio Laabus 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 Reio Laabus is on it.
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Squad12 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mairo Miil and Tammeka agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Tammeka
Pavel Marin 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tammeka are still strangers to each other
6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
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Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Tammeka
Tristan Koskor and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Tammeka
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Patrick Genro Veelma was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Tanel Lang gets it from the manager
“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.
Loan watch5 Oct 2026
“I did not go to Elva to sit and watch. I want to come back to Tammeka and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
When it matters, Pavel Marin plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Mairo Miil moves up the pecking order
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Tammeka than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
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Market28 Sep 2026
Mattis Karis has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Tammeka they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Tammeka
Tristan Koskor 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Tammeka training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Patrick Genro Veelma 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Muhammed Hydara has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Tammeka will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market28 Sep 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Rasmus Kallas signs something — a contract at Tammeka or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.
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Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Tammeka
Pavel Marin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market21 Sep 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Patrick Genro Veelma has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Tammeka.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Reio Laabus 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 Reio Laabus is on it.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Herman Pedmanson has written the date down.
Market21 Sep 2026
Tammeka have let the market know Carl Kaiser Kiidjärv can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
Market21 Sep 2026
The Osman Koroma story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Osman Koroma signs something — a contract at Tammeka or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Fadiga Badjie is not doing himself any favours
A manager forgives a bad Saturday far more readily than a bad Tuesday, because one of them he can explain and the other one he chose. The reports this week have not been good.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager plants his flag on Mairo Miil
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Mairo Miil’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
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Market14 Sep 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 Tammeka, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Patrick Genro Veelma 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Herman Pedmanson, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tammeka are still strangers to each other
6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Mairo Miil has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Tammeka will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Tristan Koskor 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad14 Sep 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 Tammeka would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
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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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 16 in, 5 out at Tammeka
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 16 arrived, 5 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market7 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Rasmus Kallas to Harju JK Laagri has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Tammeka with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Rasmus Kallas and Tammeka agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Tanel Lang gets it from the manager
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Oliver Kangaslahti is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
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 Tammeka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Tammeka
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Reio Laabus was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
When it matters, Pavel Marin plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Match26 Aug 2026
The small margins put Tammeka out
Out, 1‑3 to Flora, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Market31 Aug 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 Tammeka, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Mattis Karis has agreed terms with Nõmme United for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Market31 Aug 2026
Mattis Karis has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Tammeka they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The dugout31 Aug 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Tammeka will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Sergei Tamm after 1‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Pavel Marin beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Triumph
Squad24 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match19 Aug 2026
Tammeka march on in the cup
Paide are out and Tammeka go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Market24 Aug 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 Tammeka, and it is not being withdrawn.
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.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Rasmus Kallas has agreed terms with Kuressaare for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Tammeka
Pavel Marin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Muhammed Hydara has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad24 Aug 2026
200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Tammeka
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Patrick Genro Veelma was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Triumph
Match12 Aug 2026
Tammeka through in the cup
A 3‑2 win over Tallinna Kalev, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A brace, and Osman Koroma takes the afternoon — 9.01
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Osman Koroma provided it, and the 9.01 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Age has not caught Reio Laabus yet — 7.89
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.89 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market17 Aug 2026
FC Tallinn come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Tammeka did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets17 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.
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 Tammeka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Patrick Genro Veelma 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.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kristen Lapa, and the manager let it.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Sergei Tamm kept it short after the 3‑2 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
Luciano Sanchez arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Luciano Sanchez has, at Tammeka, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Tammeka asked and Salyut said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Tammeka
Tristan Koskor 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Nikita Tamm 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Konstantin Mets 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. Sander Igonen 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.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
513 appearances across 17 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Tammeka know what they have.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Pavel Marin commits to Tammeka for another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Pavel Marin 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
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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Carl Robert Mägimets has come up in conversations Tammeka were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Patrick Genro Veelma 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
A stepping stone, not a home, for Ander Ott Valge
He is doing his job and he is not settling. Tammeka were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market3 Aug 2026
Nobody at Tammeka has picked up the phone to Mairo Miil
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.