The KTP Sentinel
Market21 Aug 2028
Stanislav Samusenko puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at KTP, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
Window shuts: 19 in, 18 out at KTP
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 19 arrived, 18 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Ryan Mahuta 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 KTP this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Elis Rasck gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Elis Rasck has just signed for KTP, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad21 Aug 2028
A row about effort at KTP
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alfie Cicale was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
KTP rebuffed over Ermal Rrustemi
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. TPS have kept their man, and KTP go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Aapo Ruohio signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Aapo Ruohio and KTP agree another 4 years.
Market21 Aug 2028
A stepping stone, not a home, for Enrico Sorrentino
He is doing his job and he is not settling. KTP were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.
Market21 Aug 2028
KTP buy the years ahead of Edoardo Cimatti
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
In brief
- Market KTP sign Devis Pacchioli, one for the future
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Marvin Erb
- The dugout William Bergman gets picked when it counts