The KTP Sentinel
Squad1 Feb 2027
A move Fabio Deviardi 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. Fabio Deviardi is living that version at KTP, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Dennis Olsson 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 KTP this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words at KTP training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Petteri Forsell 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.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Ahmed Adebayo 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Gioele Olivo signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Gioele Olivo and KTP agree another 3 years.
Market1 Feb 2027
The ambition of Gioele Olivo outgrows KTP early
Signings arrive with a picture of the club in their head, and this one’s picture was bigger than the building. He will play well and he will be gone, in that order, and everybody knows it.
Market1 Feb 2027
KTP sign Fabio Deviardi, one for the future
Fabio Deviardi is 20, and KTP have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Market1 Feb 2027
Derrick Atta Agyei told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Derrick Atta Agyei has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at KTP.
Market1 Feb 2027
KTP and Edoardo Contiero are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
In brief
- The dugout Otto Huttunen asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Timi Lahti