The KuPS Post
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Otto Ruoppi, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.97
A mark of 7.97 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Guglielmo Mignani turns down KuPS
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Benevento keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $360.0K for Liam Möller
KuPS have gone to HJK 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Johannes Kreidl stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Johannes Kreidl and KuPS agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
VPS tell KuPS: Will Wilson is not for sale
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at KuPS
Clinton Antwi 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.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
KuPS supporters have found a favourite in Otto Ruoppi
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Otto Ruoppi has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match8 Aug 2026
KuPS get the job done against Ilves
A 2‑0 win over Ilves, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Market10 Aug 2026
KuPS promote Juha Huuhka from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Juha Huuhka has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Amos Granlund joins the KuPS first team
- Market Nikolai Soiri steps up from the KuPS academy
- Market One of our own: Matti Huuhka joins the KuPS first team