The SJK Chronicle
Squad21 Feb 2028
A falling-out at SJK
Jeremiah Streng and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Kasper Paananen 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.
Transfer targets21 Feb 2028
SJK rebuffed over Tiago Caballero
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Olimpia have kept their man, and SJK go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets21 Feb 2028
SJK ask about Daniel Ayala
A loan enquiry to Santa Fe: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad21 Feb 2028
SJK 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.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Atte Hakola stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Atte Hakola and SJK agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout21 Feb 2028
The manager makes an example of Jaakko Moisio
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout21 Feb 2028
When it matters, Tatu Varmanen 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.
Market21 Feb 2028
The Roope Paunio question follows SJK around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Roope Paunio’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- Market The shop window has Miika Niemi in it
- Market SJK borrow Benjamín Borowik
- Market Fidel Tourn arrives on loan