Kevin Comert

Attacking Midfielder (R) - FF Jaro
22 Mar 2033
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Kevin Comert

340 Edition

The FF Jaro Sentinel

31 Jan 2033
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for David Agbo

78 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. FF Jaro lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Words exchanged at FF Jaro

Kristiyan Nikiforov 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.

Squad

Jesse Nikki falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

The dugout

No hiding place for Roko Bezina

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Roko Bezina, and the manager let it.

The dugout

When it matters, Stefano Trio plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market

The Samuel Anini Jr. question follows FF Jaro around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Samuel Anini Jr.’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

Back issues
325 Edition

The FF Jaro Sentinel

18 Oct 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A falling-out at FF Jaro

Isaac Hemans and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at FF Jaro

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jesse Nikki was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Kevin Comert wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and FF Jaro know it.

The dugout

Tim Raitala 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.

Market

The Linus Zetterström talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FF Jaro know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout

Roko Bezina knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at FF Jaro, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

324 Edition

The FF Jaro Sentinel

11 Oct 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at FF Jaro

Kristiyan Nikiforov 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.

Squad

Words at FF Jaro training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Samuel Anini Jr. 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.

The dugout

Stefano Trio has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at FF Jaro will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

317 Edition

The FF Jaro Sentinel

23 Aug 2032
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom

Window shuts: 20 in, 15 out at FF Jaro

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 20 arrived, 15 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Squad

Words exchanged at FF Jaro

Kristiyan Nikiforov 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.

Squad

Kristian Rusnak arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Kristian Rusnak has, at FF Jaro, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad

Words at FF Jaro training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jesse Nikki 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.

The terraces

One of their own: Juuso Mäkeläinen

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match

FF Jaro get the job done against IFK Mariehamn

A 1‑0 win over IFK Mariehamn, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of David Agbo at his very best

Marked 8.28. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at FF Jaro.

Market

FF Jaro sign Andrea Zangari, one for the future

Andrea Zangari is 20, and FF Jaro have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Market

FF Jaro sign Kevin Comert, one for the future

Kevin Comert is 19, and FF Jaro have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

In brief