The Ilves Post
Squad18 Jan 2027
Otso Virtanen damages knee ligaments — 126 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 126 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market18 Jan 2027
Terms done: Osku Maukonen is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Potenza waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Ilves is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Sauli Väisänen 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 Ilves this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Ville Kumpu's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Faris Krkalić
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Oskari Paavola has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Ilves 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.
In brief
- Market Maksim Stjopin linked with a move away
- The dugout Oliver Pettersson has been promised minutes
- Squad Welcome back, Oskari Multala