The KuPS Post
Market21 Apr 2031
Only the photograph left for Ali-Abubakar Torfiq
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ali-Abubakar Torfiq will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around KuPS the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market21 Apr 2031
KuPS turn down VPS for Miilo Pitkänen
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad21 Apr 2031
A move Boris Ivanov 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. Boris Ivanov is living that version at KuPS, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad21 Apr 2031
Taneli Hämäläinen 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.
Match19 Apr 2031
KuPS hit back inside 4 minutes
IFK Mariehamn held the lead for 4 minutes, which is not long enough to enjoy it. KuPS answered before the celebration had properly finished, and the shape of the afternoon changed with it.
The dugout21 Apr 2031
No hiding place for Sergey Eremenko
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sergey Eremenko, and the manager let it.
Squad21 Apr 2031
Nasko Tsekov 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 KuPS know it.
Squad21 Apr 2031
Paulus Lam signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Paulus Lam commits to KuPS for another 3 years.
Match19 Apr 2031
KuPS and IFK Mariehamn take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
In brief
- The dugout Clinton Antwi gets picked when it counts
- The dugout Kasim Adams knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout Half-satisfied: Antti Jensen on the draw