The VPS Chronicle
Squad14 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Joona Somppi
14 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. VPS lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A falling-out at VPS
Kenan Busuladžić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market14 Sep 2026
Matti Forss steps up from the VPS academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Matti Forss has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market14 Sep 2026
One of our own: Daniel Granlund joins the VPS first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Daniel Granlund is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at VPS training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Miika Niemi 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.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
Olavi Keturi wants to come home
“I did not go to KTP to sit and watch. I want to come back to VPS and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Jonathan Muzinga
“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.
Market14 Sep 2026
VPS and Antti-Ville Räisänen are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
When it matters, Jonathan Muzinga 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
- Squad The dressing room has a star in it
- Market Antti-Ville Räisänen runs his contract down
- The dugout The manager makes Paulo Lima a promise