The TPS Sentinel
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Marius Könkkölä scores twice — 8.14
Two goals and a mark of 8.14 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Elmer Vauhkonen, 20, steals the show — 7.97
Marked 7.97 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Leonardo Mendicino turns down TPS
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Bari keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at TPS
Albijon Muzaci 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Marius Könkkölä sends TPS past SJK Akatemia
It finished 3‑2, and it was Marius Könkkölä’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to TPS.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Emmanuel Ntim falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
TPS agree a free transfer for Oliver Kass Kawo
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Halmstad tell TPS: Malte Persson is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
One of their own: Marius Könkkölä
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
In brief
- The dugout Emmanuel Ntim gets it from the manager
- Market TPS promote Lassi Hoskonen from within
- Market TPS promote Leo Lam from within