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116 Edition

The Ekenäs IF Courier

16 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad16 Oct 2028

Victor Falk 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 Ekenäs IF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom16 Oct 2028

Belts tighten at Ekenäs IF

The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.

Squad16 Oct 2028

A row about effort at Ekenäs IF

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ryan Mahuta was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout16 Oct 2028

Saidou Bah gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad16 Oct 2028

Afi Adebayo stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Afi Adebayo and Ekenäs IF agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout16 Oct 2028

Tatu Varmanen has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Ekenäs IF will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Squad16 Oct 2028

Gustav Pettersson is a square peg at Ekenäs IF

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

Market16 Oct 2028

The Araphat Mohammed story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Araphat Mohammed signs something — a contract at Ekenäs IF or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout16 Oct 2028

Fahad Mohamed knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Fahad Mohamed trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

Back issues
115 Edition

The Ekenäs IF Courier

9 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match9 Oct 2028

Ekenäs IF refuse to drop out of the race

Position 2, 33 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

The dugout9 Oct 2028

Oskari Sallinen frozen out at Ekenäs IF

This is not rotation. Oskari Sallinen has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Ekenäs IF is pretending otherwise.

Squad9 Oct 2028

Tempers go at Ekenäs IF

Victor Falk 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.

Squad9 Oct 2028

A move Afi Adebayo would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Afi Adebayo is living that version at Ekenäs IF, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad9 Oct 2028

Words at Ekenäs IF training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Araphat Mohammed 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.

Squad9 Oct 2028

6 new faces, and Ekenäs IF are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout9 Oct 2028

Oliver Heino gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout9 Oct 2028

David Agbo gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say David Agbo is on it.

The dugout9 Oct 2028

Victor Falk knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Ekenäs IF, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief