The Ilves Post
Market16 Jul 2035
Only the photograph left for Goudouss Bamba
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Goudouss Bamba will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Ilves the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Player ratings16 Jul 2035
Jardell Kanga runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad16 Jul 2035
Yiandro Raap 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 Ilves this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match14 Jul 2035
The goals have deserted Ilves
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Ilves can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad16 Jul 2035
A muscle injury sidelines Joni Taylor for 16 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Ilves will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad16 Jul 2035
Words at Ilves training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matias Rale 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.
Player ratings16 Jul 2035
Yiandro Raap takes the honours
Marked 7.25 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Ilves had the best player on the pitch.
Squad16 Jul 2035
Yiandro Raap has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Ilves 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.
Market16 Jul 2035
Markku Lod is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Ilves has been clear about where Markku Lod stands, which is more than many ever get.
In brief
- Match No goals between Ilves and SJK
- Market Joona Hämäläinen placed on the list
- Player ratings Antton Nylund spends the afternoon fouling