The HJK Courier
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
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.
Match29 Aug 2026
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
Market31 Aug 2026
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 ratings31 Aug 2026
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.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
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.
Market31 Aug 2026
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.
Match29 Aug 2026
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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
- Market Gino Santilli wants European nights
- Squad Robert Taylor falls out with a teammate over standards
- Boardroom Oliver Kass Kawo will join HJK for nothing