Marked for Devis Pacchioli
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom27 Nov 2028
The scrutiny sharpens at KTP
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at KTP is running low.
The dugout27 Nov 2028
This is not rotation. Stanislav Samusenko has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at KTP is pretending otherwise.
Squad27 Nov 2028
Tempers go at KTP
Ryan Mahuta 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.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad13 Nov 2028
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Devis Pacchioli is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad13 Nov 2028
Ryan Mahuta 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.
Squad13 Nov 2028
46 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
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Uneasy
Market21 Aug 2028
“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 The request is on a desk at KTP, and it is not being withdrawn.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
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
“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
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
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.