The VPS Chronicle
Market10 Aug 2026
VPS turn down IFK Mariehamn for Will Wilson
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at VPS
Simon van Duivenbooden and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match8 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for VPS against HJK
1‑3 to HJK, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
HJK tell VPS: Ville Tikkanen 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
VPS promote Teemu Raitala from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Teemu Raitala 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: Jasse Hakola joins the VPS first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jasse Hakola 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
Markku Sparv steps up from the VPS academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Markku Sparv 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.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Antti-Ville Räisänen
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Antti-Ville Räisänen, and the manager let it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
10 new faces, and VPS 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.
In brief
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- Transfer targets VPS try to borrow Villads Nielsen
- Squad The weekend belonged to Simon van Duivenbooden