The HIFK Courier
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
HIFK agree $480.0K for Michael Ogungbaro
The clubs have shaken hands with FF Jaro; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Market8 Feb 2027
Peik Westerlund asks to leave HIFK
“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.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
An offer of $340.0K for Nathaniel Tahmbi
HIFK have gone to KTP with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A move Gabriel Verutti 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. Gabriel Verutti is living that version at HIFK, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Rico Finnäs 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A falling-out at HIFK
Arttu Auranen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad8 Feb 2027
No place for Dudu in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation HIFK are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Market8 Feb 2027
Talks stall between HIFK and Dudu
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market8 Feb 2027
A long bet from HIFK on Matteo Morittu
He is 20, and nobody at HIFK signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
In brief
- Market A long bet from HIFK on Andrea De Bonis
- Boardroom The window opens at HIFK
- The dugout A door opens for Joonas Pyhälä