The JIPPO Sentinel
Market15 Nov 2027
Jyri Kiuru hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what JIPPO can pretend not to have heard.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Tempers go at JIPPO
Tòfol Montiel 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.
Boardroom15 Nov 2027
JIPPO counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at JIPPO now.
Market15 Nov 2027
One of our own: Eero Hamalainen joins the JIPPO first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Eero Hamalainen is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market15 Nov 2027
JIPPO promote Lukas Hoskonen from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Lukas Hoskonen has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market15 Nov 2027
Leo Kamara steps up from the JIPPO academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Leo Kamara has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad15 Nov 2027
A row about effort at JIPPO
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Junnosuke Watanabe was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
Erkka Oikarinen gets it from the manager
“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.
Squad15 Nov 2027
A season on the outside for Noah Östberg
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at JIPPO has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
In brief
- The dugout Terrence Smith has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout Eeli Kinnunen asks for a word with the manager
- Squad Zé Luiz is settling