Teddy Schalin

Goalkeeper - VPS
10 Feb 2028
Thursday
Process

Marked for Teddy Schalin

62 Edition

The VPS Chronicle

4 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Simon van Duivenbooden asks to leave VPS

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Tempers go at VPS

Simon van Duivenbooden 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.

Loan watch

Luka Smyth wants his own locker back at VPS

“Three loans in three years. At some point a club has to decide if I am their player or their asset.” The spell at IFK Norrkoping continues; the message travels home.

In brief

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60 Edition

The VPS Chronicle

20 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Osku Maukonen is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Tempers go at VPS

Simon van Duivenbooden 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.

Squad

Teddy Schalin gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Teddy Schalin has just signed for VPS, and for once the answer mattered.

In brief

56 Edition

The Kolkheti Sentinel

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Kolkheti say no — this time

The offer from Torpedo Kutaisi for Roberto Galli was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Dimitrij Nadirov: 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.” Kolkheti have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at Kolkheti

Georgi Tartov 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.

Match

Aleksandre Gamsakhurdia among the goals in a wild afternoon

6 goals in one match, Aleksandre Gamsakhurdia on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Kolkheti and Chikhura.

Match

Kolkheti come up short against Chikhura

Chikhura left with the points after a 2‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Guga Palavandishvili 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.

Market

Mamuka Kobiashvili moves on

Tskhinvali pay $11.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Roberto Galli

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Aleksandre Gamsakhurdia in the eights

A performance of 8.69 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief