Luka Nuorela

Central Midfielder - VPS
27 Sep 2028
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Marked for Luka Nuorela

101 Edition

The VPS Chronicle

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad3 Jul 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Vilmer Rönnberg

57 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. VPS lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match1 Jul 2028

No end in sight to VPS's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at VPS has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad3 Jul 2028

Tempers go at VPS

Martti Haukioja 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.

Match1 Jul 2028

VPS come up short against HJK

HJK left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad3 Jul 2028

Words at VPS training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Simon van Duivenbooden 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.

Squad3 Jul 2028

No hiding place for Simon van Duivenbooden

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Simon van Duivenbooden, and the manager let it.

Boardroom3 Jul 2028

Intake day at the VPS academy

6 arrivals, an average age nobody would call a squad, and a set of parents being shown around a building their sons will spend more time in than at home. The scouting has already happened; today is only the paperwork.

Player ratings3 Jul 2028

An afternoon Luka Nuorela will want back

Marked 5.50. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.

Player ratings3 Jul 2028

Sebastian Suvanne never got going

5.61 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.

In brief

Back issues
58 Edition

The VPS Chronicle

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad6 Sep 2027

Amar Diagne breaks a bone — 69 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 69 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Tempers go at VPS

Martti Haukioja 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.

Player ratings6 Sep 2027

Antti-Ville Räisänen runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match4 Sep 2027

A bad afternoon for VPS against RoPS

1‑3 to RoPS, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad6 Sep 2027

The manager makes an example of Kevin Kouassivi-Benissan

“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.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Şerban Tomache signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Şerban Tomache commits to VPS for another 3 years.

In brief

55 Edition

The VPS Chronicle

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market16 Aug 2027

Paulo Lima hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what VPS can pretend not to have heard.

Squad16 Aug 2027

Ionuţ Ban says VPS went back on their word

“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.

Match14 Aug 2027

5 matches without a win for VPS

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around VPS are no longer polite ones.

Squad16 Aug 2027

Martti Haukioja 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 VPS this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad16 Aug 2027

Amar Diagne falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match14 Aug 2027

Simon van Duivenbooden’s goal not enough for VPS

Simon van Duivenbooden scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Inter Turku, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad16 Aug 2027

No hiding place for Amar Diagne

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Amar Diagne, and the manager let it.

Player ratings16 Aug 2027

Nobody could get near Amar Diagne

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings16 Aug 2027

A day to forget for Luka Nuorela

Marked 5.60, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.

In brief

43 Edition

The VPS Chronicle

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad24 May 2027

Martti Haukioja 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 VPS this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad24 May 2027

The manager makes an example of Kevin Kouassivi-Benissan

“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.

Squad24 May 2027

Words at VPS training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Miika Niemi 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.

In brief

38 Edition

The VPS Chronicle

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad19 Apr 2027

Paulo Lima breaks a bone — 27 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 27 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match17 Apr 2027

No end in sight to VPS's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at VPS has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad19 Apr 2027

Martti Haukioja 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 VPS this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad19 Apr 2027

Amar Diagne falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match17 Apr 2027

SJK take the points off VPS

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad19 Apr 2027

Emmanuel Okereke 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.

In brief