The Inter Turku Gazette
Squad14 Apr 2031
Musa Hietakangas damages knee ligaments — 85 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 85 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match12 Apr 2031
Whatever happens, Inter Turku do not lose
14 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Market14 Apr 2031
Eero Vuorjoki has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Inter Turku they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom14 Apr 2031
A new deal for Ilkka Pukki
The board have signed the man in the dugout to a longer contract, which says more than any statement of support. Stability is easy to promise and costly to keep.
Squad14 Apr 2031
Johannes Yli-Kokko 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 Inter Turku this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom14 Apr 2031
10 academy players handed senior numbers at Inter Turku
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad14 Apr 2031
Words at Inter Turku training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bismark Ampofo 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.
Market14 Apr 2031
Inter Turku promote Eero Raitala from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Eero Raitala has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market14 Apr 2031
One of our own: Joni Jensen joins the Inter Turku first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Joni Jensen is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Juho Forss steps up from the Inter Turku academy
- Boardroom Inter Turku board go back on their word
- Player ratings Henri Salomaa runs at them all day