The SalPa Gazette
Boardroom16 Apr 2029
Robin Lam is out at SalPa
Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.
Boardroom16 Apr 2029
A stranger takes charge at SalPa
The coaching staff has emptied out entirely and there was nobody internal to promote, so the club has appointed a name almost none of its supporters will recognise. Clubs recover from this; none of them enjoy explaining it.
Market16 Apr 2029
Joonas Meura 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.
Boardroom16 Apr 2029
Interim Coach takes charge at SalPa
“Somebody has to pick the team on Saturday, and this week that is me.” An interim appointment with no promises attached, which is how most of them start.
The dugout16 Apr 2029
Benjamin Norell keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” SalPa may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market16 Apr 2029
Arseniy Prokopenko comes home
The shirt still fits. Arseniy Prokopenko is back at SalPa, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad16 Apr 2029
Sadat Seidu 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 SalPa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom16 Apr 2029
Graduation day at SalPa
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Transfer targets16 Apr 2029
SalPa rebuffed over Joona Somppi
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. VPS have kept their man, and SalPa go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
In brief
- Market SalPa promote Teemu Hamalainen from within
- Market One of our own: Lukas Uronen joins the SalPa first team
- Match SalPa come up short against PK-35