Marked for Olavi Keturi
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Steady
Market12 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jonathan Muzinga will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around VPS the goodbyes have quietly begun.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Saidou Bah says VPS went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; VPS are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at VPS training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Shaqueel van Persie 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
14 new faces, and VPS are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I did not go to KäPa to sit and watch. I want to come back to VPS and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at VPS
Luka Nuorela and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
When it matters, Akon Kuek plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Antti-Ville Räisänen trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Market5 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at KäPa is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad5 Oct 2026
William Tønning 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at KäPa
Brorie Idiebiru 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages swallow 117% of the KäPa income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Antonio Almén, and the manager let it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Olavi Keturi moves up the pecking order
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at KäPa than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
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Crisis
Match12 Sep 2026
2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Simon van Duivenbooden will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at VPS escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.58 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market14 Sep 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around VPS they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at VPS
14 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I did not go to KäPa to sit and watch. I want to come back to VPS and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 2‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at VPS training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joonas Vahtera 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
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Triumph
Market10 Aug 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around KäPa they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A muscle injury and 14 days out for Yllson Lika
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. KäPa will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The deal with SJK is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jesper Modig and KäPa agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad10 Aug 2026
William Tønning 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
KäPa find a way past JäPS
JäPS made KäPa work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KäPa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Triumph
Match1 Aug 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑0 against Klubi 04, and it could have been more.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Daniel Ripatti at 18 — 9.35
The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Daniel Ripatti did not need any: 9.35, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad3 Aug 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Samba Sillah and KäPa agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
KäPa asked and Inter Turku said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at KäPa
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and William Tønning was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at KäPa
Niklas Leinonen 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.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at KäPa, another week without a signature from William Tønning.
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Uneasy
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Simon van Duivenbooden provided it, and the 8.32 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market3 Aug 2026
Östersund come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and VPS did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Martti Haukioja and VPS agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at VPS
Simon van Duivenbooden and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; VPS are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Olavi Keturi has come up in conversations VPS were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at VPS training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jabir Abdihakim Ali 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Late, late show earns VPS a point
Minute 88, against KuPS, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.