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Edition
The Haka Gazette
28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Dec 2026
Tomas Sovelius is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Haka
Jesper Karlsson 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Haka
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Niklas Friberg was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- Market The Teppo Marttinen question follows Haka around
- The dugout The manager comes out for Miika Mahlamäki
- Squad Welcome back, Juho Karjalainen