Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Eemil Tanninen will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around KuPS the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dennis Gjengaar 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.
Christos Gravius 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.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. KuPS know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and KuPS have no good answer.
Position 1 on 49 points. Every season is a story and this is the last line of it, and now the club has three months to decide what the next one is about.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around KuPS they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Petteri Pennanen 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.
The first defeat in 7 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Inter Turku; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dennis Gjengaar 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.
Petteri Pennanen 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.
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Otto Ruoppi 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.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at KuPS, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. KuPS know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at KuPS. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Saikou Touray 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.
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.