Marked for Severi Kähkönen
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match15 Aug 2026
SJK through in the cup
A 2‑0 win over KTP, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Kelwin at 20 — 8.18
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Kelwin did not need any: 8.18, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
SJK close the window on a squad of their own making
21 in and 1 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Market17 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
No thanks: Theo Sander rejects the move
SJK had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at IF Elfsborg, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Match15 Aug 2026
SJK cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at SJK
Kelvin Pires 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
SJK asked and IF Elfsborg said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Market10 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.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Aniis Machaal has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Kelvin Pires 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 SJK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
FF Jaro will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Elliot Holmäng has pre-agreed a move to SJK, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
SJK asked and Malmo FF said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Paulus Karjalainen is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Paulus Hradecky has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Tim Joronen has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Match8 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over Inter Turku, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
In brief
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Player ratings
Riku Sjöroos runs at them all day
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Player ratings
Nobody on the pitch touched Severi Kähkönen
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Squad
15 new faces, and SJK are still learning each other
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market3 Aug 2026
SJK say no — this time
The offer from HIFK for Jeremiah Streng was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Severi Kähkönen gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Severi Kähkönen has just signed for SJK, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kelvin Pires commits to SJK for another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at SJK
Kelvin Pires 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: HIFK have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Oskari Väistö. The answer from SJK has not changed — yet.
Match1 Aug 2026
SJK come up short against FF Jaro
FF Jaro left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aapo Boström, and the manager let it.