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Market1 Oct 2029
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around VPS they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad1 Oct 2029
21 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad1 Oct 2029
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Boardroom3 Sep 2029
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Squad3 Sep 2029
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market3 Sep 2029
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around VPS they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad3 Sep 2029
51 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match1 Sep 2029
A 1-0 win over IFK Mariehamn, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad3 Sep 2029
Luka Smyth asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Boardroom3 Sep 2029
VPS pull $706.3K back off the table
The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
Squad3 Sep 2029
Diego Temoche is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.21 with 0 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Boardroom3 Sep 2029
VPS answer back
A squad written off a fortnight ago has closed ranks. Whatever was said behind that door, it has held so far.
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Squad23 Apr 2029
Otto Huttunen: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” VPS have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match21 Apr 2029
A bad afternoon for VPS against SJK
1-2 to SJK, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad23 Apr 2029
Luka Smyth 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.
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Squad16 Apr 2029
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market16 Apr 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at VPS is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market16 Apr 2029
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market16 Apr 2029
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market16 Apr 2029
The shirt still fits. Erik Lam is back at VPS, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Match14 Apr 2029
HJK take the points off VPS
Beaten 0-2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.