From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Viimsi
Glaybson 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Viimsi
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aleksei Tšernjakov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Viimsi
Aleksei Tšernjakov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Reinhard Reimaa 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.
Squad26 Oct 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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The dugout
The manager comes out for Glaybson
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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Viimsi
Karl Läänelaid and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 38 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Viimsi
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aleksei Tšernjakov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
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Squad
Too much change too quickly at Viimsi
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Viimsi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Viimsi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aleksei Tšernjakov 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Glaybson
“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.
In brief
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Squad
Glaybson has outgrown this division
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Squad
A season on the outside for Glaybson
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Viimsi
Idalécio Dias 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
Reinhard Reimaa 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Viimsi
Idalécio Dias 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 Viimsi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aleksei Tšernjakov 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Viimsi
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aleksei Tšernjakov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Viimsi are still strangers to each other
17 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The least glamorous thing a foreign signing ever does and the one that decides most of them. A player who can hear the shout behind him is a different footballer from one who cannot.
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Uneasy
Market14 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.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Viimsi 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Viimsi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aleksei Tšernjakov 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
Uneasy
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 28 signed and 36 gone
That is the business done at Viimsi until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Viimsi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aleksei Tšernjakov 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
He is 20, and nobody at Viimsi signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad7 Sep 2026
No place for Peeter Alev in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Viimsi are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Squad7 Sep 2026
His past walked in ahead of him. Players who have been where he has been get a hearing in a dressing room before they have earned one, and he has it for as long as his form does.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A strip of cloth that decides nothing on the pitch and tells the dressing room whose opinion counts. The manager has made a statement without making one.
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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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Viimsi have done the hard part with FCI Levadia, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Aleksei Tšernjakov 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Viimsi
Idalécio Dias 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 targets24 Aug 2026
$150.0K was the most the club would pay and Flora were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Viimsi
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Reinhard Reimaa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market24 Aug 2026
Signings arrive with a picture of the club in their head, and this one’s picture was bigger than the building. He will play well and he will be gone, in that order, and everybody knows it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
14 new faces, and Viimsi are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
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Crisis
Match12 Aug 2026
Viimsi out of the cup
Paide ended it 0‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
A cup hiding at Paide leaves Viimsi explaining themselves
0-3, 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $216.9K — a club that wants Kristjan Kask enough to be asked twice.
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 Viimsi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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
A row about effort at Viimsi
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aleksei Tšernjakov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market17 Aug 2026
Signings arrive with a picture of the club in their head, and this one’s picture was bigger than the building. He will play well and he will be gone, in that order, and everybody knows it.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Daniil Barinov
“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
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Aleksei Tšernjakov commits to Viimsi for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Viimsi
Idalécio Dias 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Viimsi asked and Irtysh 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 at Viimsi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aleksei Tšernjakov 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Artur Baranov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Artur Mets joins the Viimsi first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Artur Mets is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Viimsi have gone to Narva Trans with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Johann Kõre and Viimsi agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The formation has left Tauno Tekko behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Viimsi will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Viimsi, another week without a signature from Tauno Tekko.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Viimsi
Robin Kane and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
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.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Viimsi training over how hard people work
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Market
The clock runs on Johann Kõre's contract
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Market
Viimsi shop where it costs nothing
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Market
Rasmus Armas leaves for nothing