Marked for Matti Arajuuri
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at JIPPO
Juho Lehtiranta 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“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 Sep 2026
Jyri Kiuru knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at JIPPO, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Matti Arajuuri out for 15 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason JIPPO will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what JIPPO can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at JIPPO
André Álvarez Pérez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at JIPPO
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jyri Kiuru was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Sep 2026
8 new faces, and JIPPO are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Market7 Sep 2026
The shop window has Jyri Kiuru in it
JIPPO have let the market know Jyri Kiuru can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what JIPPO can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 22 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at JIPPO
André Álvarez Pérez 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.
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Crisis
Squad24 Aug 2026
There were 11 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match19 Aug 2026
JIPPO bow out of the cup
KuPS go through and JIPPO go home, 0‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market24 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at JIPPO, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 Aug 2026
30 days out for Matti Arajuuri after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. JIPPO will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at JIPPO
Juho Lehtiranta 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 targets24 Aug 2026
JIPPO asked and HJK said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at JIPPO
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jyri Kiuru was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. JIPPO will try again when the window opens; FC Lahti may not be selling by then.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to André Álvarez Pérez, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with TPS, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Ilves keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at JIPPO
Juho Lehtiranta was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
JIPPO asked and Ilves said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Tim Toivio 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Oliver Hradecky has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Riku Granlund joins the JIPPO first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Riku Granlund is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Matti Arajuuri has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.