The KuPS Post
Market21 Dec 2026
Only the photograph left for Joslyn Luyeye-Lutumba
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Joslyn Luyeye-Lutumba will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around KuPS the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Rashid Abubakar 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 KuPS this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
When it matters, Rashid Abubakar 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 dugout21 Dec 2026
Petteri Pennanen 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 KuPS, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Saku Heiskanen gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market21 Dec 2026
Rashid Abubakar linked with a move away
The name of Rashid Abubakar keeps appearing in other people's back pages. KuPS say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
A door opens for Isaac Twum
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Niilo Kujasalo: “I am not a substitute”
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one KuPS will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
Squad21 Dec 2026
The training reports on Kasperi Silen are not good
A bad Saturday is forgiven; a bad Tuesday is chosen. Standards have slipped and in a building where everybody watches everybody, it has been noticed.
In brief
- Squad Piotr Parzyszek is the talk of the training ground
- Loan watch Karl Ward's loan at IFK Mariehamn nearly up