The VPS Chronicle
Squad5 Apr 2027
45 days out for Miika Niemi after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. VPS will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market5 Apr 2027
Joonas Vahtera is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at VPS is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom5 Apr 2027
Deadline passes with 4 signed and 2 gone
That is the business done at VPS until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad5 Apr 2027
VPS lose Atte Lod
30 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Words exchanged at VPS
Martti Haukioja 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.
Transfer targets5 Apr 2027
Tomas Varhi stays at RoPS as time runs out
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. VPS will try again when the window opens; RoPS may not be selling by then.
Squad5 Apr 2027
VPS are still strangers to each other
5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
Joonas Vahtera 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.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
When it matters, Aleksi Piispa 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.
In brief
- Market The Vilmer Rönnberg talk will not go away
- The dugout Luka Nuorela knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout Tijjani Mohammed keeps his manager's vote