From our football correspondent
Steady
Match18 Oct 2027
HJK up to position 237 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad18 Oct 2027
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market18 Oct 2027
The name of Mouhamed Guèye keeps appearing in other people's back pages. HJK say nothing, which says plenty.
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Upbeat
Squad6 Sep 2027
Alfie Cicale : that is not what I was promised“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” HJK have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match4 Sep 2027
9 unbeaten for HJK
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation HJK did not have in the autumn.
Squad6 Sep 2027
109 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match4 Sep 2027
HJK get the job done against SJK A 2-1 win over SJK , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad6 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Matej Marković
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Upbeat
Market2 Aug 2027
“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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Teemu Pukki
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match31 Jul 2027
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at HJK , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad2 Aug 2027
A first senior shirt for Mark Engel
Every debut is a small story about the future: Mark Engel , 19 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.
Market2 Aug 2027
4 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs HJK money.
The terraces2 Aug 2027
Everybody has an opinion about Teemu Pukki
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
Squad2 Aug 2027
A new face in his position, and Matej Marković suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. HJK have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Market2 Aug 2027
HJK have made Lucas Lingman available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
In brief
Market
Mark Engel arrives on loan
The terraces
The press cannot get enough of Ville Tikkanen
Boardroom
The HJK board put their names to it
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Upbeat
Squad19 Jul 2027
Mouhamed Guèye : that is not what I was promised“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” HJK have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad19 Jul 2027
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market19 Jul 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what HJK can pretend not to have heard.
Match17 Jul 2027
Three points for HJK , 3-1 the final word against KuPS in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Market19 Jul 2027
The name of Liam Möller has come up in conversations HJK were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad19 Jul 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market19 Jul 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Lucas Lingman has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at HJK .
Squad19 Jul 2027
One booking too many, and Sondre Tronstad sits out. HJK lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.
Market19 Jul 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. HJK know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Match7 Jul 2027
HJK march on in the cupFC Lahti are out and HJK go through, 1-0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Squad12 Jul 2027
“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.
Match10 Jul 2027
A bad afternoon for HJK against HIFK
0-1 to HIFK , and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Boardroom12 Jul 2027
Nobody left the HJK dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Squad12 Jul 2027
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Squad12 Jul 2027
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Steady
Match28 Jun 2027
HJK up to position 318 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad28 Jun 2027
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market28 Jun 2027
The bid was some way short and HJK did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match26 Jun 2027
HJK get the job done against VPS A 1-0 win over VPS , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Loan watch28 Jun 2027
“I did not go to Sarpsborg 08 to sit and watch. I want to come back to HJK and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.
Squad28 Jun 2027
“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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at HJK , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad28 Jun 2027
The shirt belongs to Ian Vera now
At 22 he has made the position his own, and the man he took it from has to find something to say about it. HJK have a decision that made itself.
Market28 Jun 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. HJK know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Market7 Jun 2027
“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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad7 Jun 2027
The captaincy has been taken off Matej Marković . HJK will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Match5 Jun 2027
HJK and RoPS cancel each other outNil-nil, and few chances worth the name. RoPS came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Squad7 Jun 2027
At 20 years old, Osku Maukonen became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.
The terraces7 Jun 2027
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
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Upbeat
Match31 May 2027
HJK are in among the leadersPosition 3 and 13 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Match29 May 2027
A 3-1 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.
Squad31 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Matej Marković
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Loan watch31 May 2027
“I did not go to Sarpsborg 08 to sit and watch. I want to come back to HJK and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
Squad31 May 2027
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Squad31 May 2027
At 30 he is in the side on merit and somebody else is watching from the bench. Places at HJK are won quietly and lost loudly.
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Crisis
Squad17 May 2027
Ian Vera : that is not what I was promised“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” HJK have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match15 May 2027
A bad afternoon for HJK against Inter Turku
1-2 to Inter Turku , and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad17 May 2027
Teemu Pukki 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.
Ian Vera Ian Vera: that is not what I was promised
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Steady
Match1 May 2027
7 unbeaten for HJK
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation HJK did not have in the autumn.
Match1 May 2027
Three points for HJK , 2-1 the final word against KuPS in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Loan watch3 May 2027
“I did not go to Sarpsborg 08 to sit and watch. I want to come back to HJK and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Squad3 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Matej Marković
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad3 May 2027
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Squad3 May 2027
Branco Salinardi asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad3 May 2027
HJK will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
Market3 May 2027
HJK have made Ville Vuorinen available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Market3 May 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. HJK know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Upbeat
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market21 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at HJK is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at HJK , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market21 Sep 2026
2 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what HJK could get for him.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A new face in his position, and Matej Marković suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. HJK have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
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Upbeat
Match19 Aug 2026
HJK bow out of the cupVPS go through and HJK go home, 1-2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market24 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at HJK is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Sondre Tronstad
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match22 Aug 2026
Three points for HJK , 1-0 the final word against RoPS in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Inquest at HJK
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Marcus Forss finally opens his accountHe wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. HJK have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Market24 Aug 2026
3 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs HJK money.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Robert Taylor has company in his positionThe competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Robert Taylor keeps the shirt for now, at HJK 's convenience rather than his own.
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Crisis
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Teemu Pukki and HJK agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Mouhamed Guèye has come up in conversations HJK were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Teemu Pukki
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.