The Ilves Post
Market15 Feb 2027
As if he never left: Vincent Ulundu returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Vincent Ulundu is a Ilves player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
Ilves make their move for Ilari Kangasniemi
$260.0K on the table at Inter Turku. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Ilves
Roope Riski and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
Ilves rebuffed over Onni Hänninen
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. KTP have kept their man, and Ilves go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words at Ilves training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joonas Kekarainen 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Mikael Jensen out for 15 days
The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Mikael Jensen, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
A loan move for Denil Castillo is in the works
Ilves have made the call to FC Midtjylland. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Vincent Ulundu is a square peg at Ilves
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Lauri Ala-Myllymäki has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Ilves will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
In brief
- Market Otto Tiitinen is free to find somewhere else
- The dugout Oliver Pettersson has been promised minutes
- Market Matias Rale linked with a move away