Gino Santilli

Goalkeeper - HJK
7 Sep 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Gino Santilli

5 Edition

The HJK Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Petar Mićin

Successful dribbles: 37. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

HJK through in the cup

A 1‑0 win over FC Lahti, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Squad

A fracture rules Brooklyn Lyons-Foster out for 142 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason HJK will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Only the photograph left for Mihailo Bogićević

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mihailo Bogićević will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around HJK the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Player ratings

Roni Hudd, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.85

A mark of 7.85 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Boardroom

Brooklyn Lyons-Foster has agreed to leave HJK for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Market

Fylkir come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and HJK did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Match

Still nobody has beaten HJK

The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Tempers go at HJK

Lassi Lappalainen 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.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Banfield Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Bnei Sakhnin come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Banfield did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Ignacio Abraham stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ignacio Abraham and Banfield agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Banfield

Bruno Sepúlveda 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.

Market

Banfield sell Gino Santilli for $300.0K

Gino Santilli has left for HJK in a $300.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

Words at Banfield training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago López García 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.

Market

24 months and counting on Favio Álvarez

Still no offer on the table, and Favio Álvarez’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

In brief

2 Edition

The HJK Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Robert Taylor runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 44. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Petar Mićin gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Petar Mićin has just signed for HJK, and for once the answer mattered.

Market

HJK say no — this time

The offer from Inter Turku for Lucas Lingman was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Boardroom

Eemil Toivonen signs for HIFK while still at HJK

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Eemil Toivonen has agreed terms with HIFK for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Market

Gino Santilli arrives at HJK in a $300.0K statement of intent

There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. HJK have paid $300.0K for Gino Santilli, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.

Squad

Robert Taylor 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 HJK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at HJK training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lassi Lappalainen 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Emmanuel Boateng

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Emmanuel Boateng, and the manager let it.

Market

Eyes on Elías Ovelar again

The phone has started ringing about Elías Ovelar again, and this time the name on the line is Fylkir. HJK are listening politely and promising nothing.

In brief

1 Edition

The Banfield Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Tomás Adoryan

Successful dribbles: 42. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Racing Santander come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Banfield did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Thomas Rodríguez has been here 8 seasons

150 appearances across 8 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Squad

Bruno Sepúlveda stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Bruno Sepúlveda and Banfield agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Bruno Sepúlveda 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 Banfield this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Banfield training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Favio Álvarez 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.

Market

Eyes on Gino Santilli again

The phone has started ringing about Gino Santilli again, and this time the name on the line is HJK. Banfield are listening politely and promising nothing.

Market

Nobody at Banfield has picked up the phone to Bruno Sepúlveda

24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to David Zalazar

A mark of 7.21, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

In brief