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The KTP Sentinel

3 Sep 2040
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad3 Sep 2040

Diaed de Alba damages knee ligaments — 89 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 89 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Boardroom3 Sep 2040

Jaakko Jensen has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at KTP can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Boardroom3 Sep 2040

The KTP board call everybody in

Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.

Squad3 Sep 2040

Aapo Ruohio breaks a bone — 33 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 33 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings3 Sep 2040

Age has not caught Antonin Melis yet — 8.12

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.12 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Match1 Sep 2040

Whatever happens, KTP do not lose

9 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad3 Sep 2040

Antonio Alberti says KTP went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad3 Sep 2040

Onni Hänninen stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Onni Hänninen and KTP agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The terraces3 Sep 2040

KTP supporters have found a favourite in Rasmus Hakola

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 17-year-old it feels ownership of. Rasmus Hakola has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

In brief

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The KTP Sentinel

14 Nov 2039
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad14 Nov 2039

Jaakko Ojala keeps KTP in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match7 Nov 2039

8 matches without a win for KTP

The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around KTP are no longer polite ones.

Match7 Nov 2039

KTP come up short in Europe

0‑2 away to the standard of Sochaux. Nobody will pretend this was a scandal; the gap is real, it is measurable, and closing it is a project rather than a team talk.

Match14 Nov 2039

KTP up to position 3

37 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Squad14 Nov 2039

George Parker says KTP went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad14 Nov 2039

Tempers go at KTP

Wesley Spieringhs 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.

Squad14 Nov 2039

Words at KTP training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christian Chibuzor 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.

Match7 Nov 2039

The goals have deserted KTP

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at KTP can tell you which week it ends in.

Player ratings14 Nov 2039

Antonin Melis runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief