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Steady
Squad23 Sep 2030
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Daniel Pukki commits to KuPS for another 3 years.
Squad23 Sep 2030
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market23 Sep 2030
The name of Valentín Gasc keeps appearing in other people's back pages. KuPS say nothing, which says plenty.
Back issues
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Crisis
Match28 Nov 2029
6 matches without a win for KuPS
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around KuPS are no longer polite ones.
Squad3 Dec 2029
“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.
Market3 Dec 2029
Joas Snellman has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around KuPS they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad3 Dec 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jaime Moreno and KuPS agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match28 Nov 2029
0-1 to Slavia Sofia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad3 Dec 2029
“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.
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Upbeat
Squad30 Apr 2029
“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.
Market30 Apr 2029
“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.
Match28 Apr 2029
KuPS make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now KuPS have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad30 Apr 2029
20 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match28 Apr 2029
Three points for KuPS, 2-1 the final word against RoPS in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad30 Apr 2029
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Upbeat
Market16 Apr 2029
The shirt still fits. Juhani Granlund is back at KuPS, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market16 Apr 2029
The shirt still fits. Joel Kamara is back at KuPS, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market16 Apr 2029
The shirt still fits. Joni Uronen is back at KuPS, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market16 Apr 2029
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad16 Apr 2029
“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.
Match14 Apr 2029
Three points for KuPS, 1-0 the final word against KTP in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Boardroom16 Apr 2029
KuPS are making the ground bigger
Work is signed off on a capacity of 3205. It is the sort of decision a club is judged on twenty years later, by people who were not there when it was taken.
Boardroom16 Apr 2029
A promise the KuPS board did not keep
There was a commitment, there was a date, and the date went past. Trust at a football club takes years to build and one afternoon to spend.
The terraces16 Apr 2029
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.