The KTP Sentinel
Squad1 Mar 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Joni Mäkelä
79 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. KTP lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom1 Mar 2027
The scrutiny sharpens at KTP
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at KTP is running low.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at KTP
Timi Lahti 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 dugout1 Mar 2027
No hiding place for Samuli Hölttä
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Samuli Hölttä, and the manager let it.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
Arttu Tulehmo 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 Arttu Tulehmo trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market1 Mar 2027
The Ahmed Adebayo talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. KTP know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- Squad Simone Albè remains an outsider
- Squad Juho Leikas: “I am not a substitute”
- Market KTP put Marco Stigliano up for sale
- The dugout The manager comes out for Timi Lahti