From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Darluis Paz 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
FCI Tallinn pay $26.0K, 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The Mairo Miil story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Mairo Miil signs something — a contract at Tammeka or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Market31 Aug 2026
Tammeka have let the market know Kevin Anderson can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The move was somebody else's story. What it left behind was a dressing-room stall nobody has taken and a player who keeps looking at it.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Market24 Aug 2026
Narva Trans 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Marius Vister 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Örken Makhan 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: FCI Tallinn have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Rasmus Kallas. The answer from Tammeka has not changed — yet.
Squad24 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Maxim Druchik
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Tammeka will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Squad24 Aug 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.
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Crisis
Match12 Aug 2026
Tammeka bow out of the cup
Parnu go through and Tammeka go home, 0‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market17 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Oliver Kangaslahti again, and this time the name on the line is Narva Trans. Tammeka are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Darluis Paz
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Tammeka will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market17 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Kevin Anderson has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Tammeka.
Squad17 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
At 19 years old, Mattis Karis became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.
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Steady
Market10 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Pedro Manoel
“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 Aug 2026
Saúl Reyes has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Tammeka know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Market10 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market3 Aug 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.
Market3 Aug 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.
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Örken Makhan
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Tammeka will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.