Alex Hilden

Goalkeeper - FC Lahti
24 Jul 2030
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Alex Hilden

207 Edition

The FC Lahti Post

15 Jul 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Otso Koskinen has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around FC Lahti they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market

Ernest Mwankurinah 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 FC Lahti can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Yohan Cassubie delivers — 7.59

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Yohan Cassubie scored, was marked 7.59, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

The dugout

Tomáš Ret keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” FC Lahti may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Hakim Sulemana

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Hakim Sulemana 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 FC Lahti this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at FC Lahti training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yohan Cassubie 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.

Match

FC Lahti find a way past VPS

VPS made FC Lahti work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Alex Hilden

“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.

In brief

Back issues
205 Edition

The FC Lahti Post

1 Jul 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A falling-out at FC Lahti

Riccardo Forte and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Hakim Sulemana

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Words at FC Lahti training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yohan Cassubie 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.

Match

Momodou Sarr’s goal not enough for FC Lahti

Momodou Sarr scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to SJK, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

The dugout

No hiding place for Anwar Abdi

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

Squad

Elio Landi signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Elio Landi commits to FC Lahti for another 3 years.

The dugout

Riku Lam faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Riku Lam after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Market

FC Lahti and Marko Roginić 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.

The dugout

Alex Hilden knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at FC Lahti, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief