The Ekenäs IF Courier
Squad8 Feb 2027
A move Mandovani 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. Mandovani is living that version at Ekenäs IF, and it tends to show in the first month.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Ekenäs IF make their move for Atte Sihvonen
$580.0K on the table at TPS. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Ekenäs IF go back to the board over Atte Sihvonen
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $650.8K — a club that wants Atte Sihvonen enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Jonathan Muzinga is a medical away from Ekenäs IF
The deal with VPS is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Ekenäs IF baulk at the price for Simon van Duivenbooden
VPS wanted more than $830.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Ekenäs IF bid $30.0K for Jesse Kilo
The offer went to Ilves this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Saidou Bah signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Saidou Bah commits to Ekenäs IF for another 4 years.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: Eero Hoskonen joins the Ekenäs IF first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Eero Hoskonen is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Ekenäs IF
Mandovani and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
In brief
- Squad A row about effort at Ekenäs IF
- The dugout The manager makes an example of August Björklund
- The dugout When it matters, Saidou Bah plays