Emmanuel Ntim

Right Back - KuPS
27 Aug 2026
Thursday
Process

Marked for Emmanuel Ntim

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The KuPS Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

KuPS turn down AC Oulu for Joslyn Luyeye-Lutumba

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Boardroom

KuPS close the window on a squad of their own making

15 in and 0 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.

Transfer targets

Daníel Guðjohnsen due for a KuPS medical

Everything agreed with Malmo FF, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Boardroom

Arttu Lötjönen signs for AC Oulu while still at KuPS

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Arttu Lötjönen has agreed terms with AC Oulu for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Transfer targets

KuPS rebuffed over Ville Tikkanen

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. HJK have kept their man, and KuPS go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Boardroom

KuPS agree a free transfer for Will Wilson

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Squad

A falling-out at KuPS

Valentín Gasc and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Emmanuel Ntim

“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.

Market

Arttu Lötjönen attracts admirers

The name of Arttu Lötjönen has come up in conversations KuPS were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

In brief

  • Squad A row about effort at KuPS
  • Squad This league is too small for Emmanuel Ntim
  • Squad 14 new faces, and KuPS are still learning each other
Back issues
2 Edition

The KuPS Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

KuPS go back to the board over Otto Kemppainen

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $270.0K — a club that wants Otto Kemppainen enough to be asked twice.

Market

KuPS pay Kalmar FF $350.0K for a proper upgrade

Kalmar FF did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $350.0K for Anthony Olusanya, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.

Squad

Johannes Kreidl signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Johannes Kreidl commits to KuPS for another 3 years.

Transfer targets

An offer of $260.0K for Otto Kemppainen

KuPS have gone to AC Oulu with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad

Words exchanged at KuPS

Emmanuel Ntim 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.

Squad

KuPS count the cost of losing Saku Savolainen

15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Market

AC Oulu watching Joslyn Luyeye-Lutumba

The interest is real enough to have reached print. KuPS have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

The terraces

The town asked, and KuPS paid $350.0K

Anthony Olusanya was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $350.0K. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.

Squad

A row about effort at KuPS

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Saikou Touray was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief