The SalPa Gazette
Market23 Aug 2032
Only the photograph left for Samu Herronen
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Samu Herronen will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around SalPa the goodbyes have quietly begun.
The dugout23 Aug 2032
Atte Sihvonen: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” SalPa have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market23 Aug 2032
Maciu Tuinuku asks to leave SalPa
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Boardroom23 Aug 2032
Deadline passes with 27 signed and 22 gone
That is the business done at SalPa until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Boardroom23 Aug 2032
Samu Herronen has agreed to leave SalPa for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad23 Aug 2032
Liam Rippon wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and SalPa know it.
Squad23 Aug 2032
A falling-out at SalPa
Samu Herronen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad23 Aug 2032
A move Asian Beqiraj would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Asian Beqiraj is living that version at SalPa, and it tends to show in the first month.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2032
SalPa rebuffed over Anton Stuhrmann
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. PK-35 have kept their man, and SalPa go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
In brief
- Squad Words at SalPa training over how hard people work
- Market SalPa sign Patrick Mathieu, one for the future
- The dugout No hiding place for Daniel Hermansson