The KTP Sentinel
Match8 Aug 2026
KTP taken apart
2‑5 to KuPS, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Maksym Zhuk keeps KTP in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ahmed Adebayo stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ahmed Adebayo and KTP agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Atomu Tanaka in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KTP this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match8 Aug 2026
7 goals as KTP and KuPS go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between KTP and KuPS, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
AC Oulu tell KTP: Niklas Jokelainen 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at KTP
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Johan Brannefalk was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market10 Aug 2026
KTP promote Riku Pukki from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Riku Pukki 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
Tim Raitala steps up from the KTP academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Tim Raitala 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.
In brief
- Market KTP promote Eero Kamara from within
- Market KTP promote Markku Sparv from within
- The dugout No hiding place for Lassi Järvenpää