The IFK Mariehamn Sentinel
Market26 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Wille Nuñez
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Wille Nuñez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around IFK Mariehamn the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad26 Oct 2026
12 new faces, and IFK Mariehamn 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
When it matters, Leo Andersson 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
Jelle van der Heyden 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 IFK Mariehamn, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
A door opens for Tuure Siira
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.
Market26 Oct 2026
The Yeboah Amankwah story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Yeboah Amankwah signs something — a contract at IFK Mariehamn or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
In brief
- The dugout Santeri Väänänen keeps his manager's vote
- Squad Aleksi Hoskonen back in training