The Ilves Post
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Maksim Stjopin runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market10 Aug 2026
Terms done: Niilo Husu is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and RoPS waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Ilves is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market10 Aug 2026
RoPS come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Ilves did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Yvandro Borges Sanches is a medical away from Ilves
The deal with Heracles 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
No thanks: Viktor Bjarki Daðason rejects the move
Ilves had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at FC Copenhagen, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Sebastian Suvanne signs for KTP while still at Ilves
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Sebastian Suvanne has agreed terms with KTP for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Ilves
Dennis Olsson 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
Door shut on Leo Östman
Ilves asked and IF Elfsborg said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
HIFK join the queue for Yiandro Raap
Add another name to the list: HIFK have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Yiandro Raap. The answer from Ilves has not changed — yet.
In brief
- Market Lassi Hakola steps up from the Ilves academy
- Match A bad afternoon for Ilves against KuPS
- Squad 200 appearances for Sauli Väisänen