Robert Fleury

Left Midfielder - KuPS
25 Nov 2046
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1026 Edition

The KuPS Post

26 Mar 2046
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Erik Forss damages knee ligaments — 56 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 56 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

A fracture rules Jaakko Raitala out for 16 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason KuPS will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

FC Lahti expected to open talks for Adam Forsberg

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. KuPS will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

In brief

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The KuPS Post

28 Aug 2045
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A fracture rules Souleymane Soumahoro out for 31 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason KuPS will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Robert Fleury keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” KuPS may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

A move Kostiantyn Rebrov 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. Kostiantyn Rebrov is living that version at KuPS, and it tends to show in the first month.

Match

George Taylor the difference as KuPS beat FC Lahti

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: George Taylor. 2‑1 against FC Lahti, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Vitaliy Rotan 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Vasil Milanov

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Christophe Blanchard stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.85 on the card, and the KuPS support went home talking about one name.

Market

The Adam Forsberg conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: RoPS will make the call about Adam Forsberg this week. KuPS have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Market

Kostiantyn Rebrov joins KuPS on a free

No fee and no drama: Kostiantyn Rebrov has signed at KuPS, and the wage bill is the only line that moved.

In brief

989 Edition

The KuPS Post

10 Jul 2045
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

KuPS march on in the cup

FC Lahti are out and KuPS go through, 2‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Match

KuPS refuse to drop out of the race

Position 1, 28 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Squad

Souleymane Soumahoro breaks a bone — 84 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 84 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Ilkka Karjalainen asks to leave KuPS

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Match

KuPS make it 6 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now KuPS have 6 straight wins of it.

Player ratings

Robert Fleury, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.82

A mark of 7.82 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market

Adam Forsberg is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at KuPS is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Adam Forsberg

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Christophe Blanchard sends KuPS past IFK Mariehamn

It finished 2‑0, and it was Christophe Blanchard’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to KuPS.

In brief