From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad11 Jan 2027
Diogo Tomás 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Erik Andersson 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Tòfol Montiel’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Uneasy
Squad4 Jan 2027
Diogo Tomás 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 FC Lahti this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Jan 2027
He will be fined, he will apologise, and he will play on Saturday. The order of those three tells you everything about what a football club actually values.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Tempers went at FC Lahti this week. Nothing a hard session and a quiet word cannot repair, though the story got out all the same.
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Uneasy
Market28 Dec 2026
Tòfol Montiel hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FC Lahti can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Dec 2026
128 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad28 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Lahti this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
Diogo Tomás 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 FC Lahti this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Diogo Tomás 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.
Market21 Dec 2026
The Romain Sans talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FC Lahti know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Dec 2026
Diogo Tomás 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Väinö Vehkonen
“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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Tuure Siira 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.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
Diogo Tomás 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 FC Lahti this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Diogo Tomás
“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 Dec 2026
Väinö Vehkonen knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Väinö Vehkonen trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Market30 Nov 2026
Tòfol Montiel hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FC Lahti can pretend not to have heard.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Diogo Tomás 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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
181% of the income goes out in wages at FC Lahti
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
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Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
Diogo Tomás 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 FC Lahti this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Justus Ojanen commits to FC Lahti for another 4 years.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matias Vainionpää, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Diogo Tomás 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.
Market16 Nov 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Tòfol Montiel’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tòfol Montiel 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Yohan Cassubie 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
The Tuure Siira story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Tuure Siira signs something — a contract at FC Lahti or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Uneasy
Market2 Nov 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.
Market2 Nov 2026
Only the photograph left for Yohan Cassubie
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yohan Cassubie will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around FC Lahti the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad2 Nov 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Diogo Tomás 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
181% of the income goes out in wages at FC Lahti
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Diogo Tomás knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Diogo Tomás trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market26 Oct 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FC Lahti can pretend not to have heard.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” FC Lahti may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market26 Oct 2026
Romaric Yapi has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around FC Lahti they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad26 Oct 2026
18 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Diogo Tomás 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 FC Lahti this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Jere Koponen 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.
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Uneasy
Market19 Oct 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Diogo Tomás 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.
Loan watch19 Oct 2026
“I did not go to KTP to sit and watch. I want to come back to FC Lahti and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
Market19 Oct 2026
The clock does Yohan Cassubie’s negotiating for him
1 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee FC Lahti could ask drops and the wages Yohan Cassubie can ask rise.
Squad19 Oct 2026
José Müller 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Romaric Yapi 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Diogo Tomás 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 FC Lahti this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Romaric Yapi
“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.
Market12 Oct 2026
The Tuure Siira story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Tuure Siira signs something — a contract at FC Lahti or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Uneasy
Market5 Oct 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at FC Lahti, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market5 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Yohan Cassubie
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yohan Cassubie will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around FC Lahti the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Diogo Tomás 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 305% of everything FC Lahti earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Market5 Oct 2026
Neemias linked with a move away
The name of Neemias keeps appearing in other people's back pages. FC Lahti say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Diogo Tomás is not doing himself any favours
A manager forgives a bad Saturday far more readily than a bad Tuesday, because one of them he can explain and the other one he chose. The reports this week have not been good.
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Uneasy
Market28 Sep 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.
Market28 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Romaric Yapi
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Romaric Yapi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around FC Lahti the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad28 Sep 2026
17 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Diogo Tomás 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 FC Lahti this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch28 Sep 2026
“I watch every FC Lahti game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at IFK Mariehamn runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Yohan Cassubie 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.
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Uneasy
Market21 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at FC Lahti, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Lahti this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at FC Lahti, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Yohan Cassubie knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Yohan Cassubie trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market21 Sep 2026
2 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs FC Lahti money.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
Martín Arenas 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Romaric Yapi
“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.
Market14 Sep 2026
The Tuure Siira story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Tuure Siira signs something — a contract at FC Lahti or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Market14 Sep 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Yohan Cassubie may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Momodou Sarr 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The selectors could not leave Diogo Tomás out
6.73 across ninety minutes and a place in the division's team of the week. He was the best player on that pitch and everybody there knew it.
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Crisis
Market7 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Yohan Cassubie
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yohan Cassubie will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around FC Lahti the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match5 Sep 2026
6 matches without a win for FC Lahti
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around FC Lahti are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Diogo Tomás 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 ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match5 Sep 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
382% of the income goes out in wages at FC Lahti
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tuure Siira 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.26 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Neemias keeps on missing
Shots: 11, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
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Uneasy
Market31 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Only the photograph left for Romaric Yapi
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Romaric Yapi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around FC Lahti the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for FC Lahti
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Diogo Tomás 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 FC Lahti this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Diogo Tomás
“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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
One of those days for Neemias
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.21, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad31 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Diego Aravena
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. FC Lahti will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Match29 Aug 2026
FC Lahti and HJK 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.
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Uneasy
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to FC Lahti's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at FC Lahti has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Diogo Tomás 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 ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jere Koponen, and the manager let it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Martín Arenas
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. FC Lahti will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A defender's afternoon for Diogo Tomás
Defensive actions: 17. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 15. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Match22 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. KuPS will be the happier side with the point.
Market24 Aug 2026
3 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what FC Lahti could get for him.
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Steady
Match12 Aug 2026
The small margins put FC Lahti out
Out, 0‑1 to VPS, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Market17 Aug 2026
RoPS come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and FC Lahti did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 5 of the 21 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Diogo Tomás 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 FC Lahti this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.47 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Momodou Sarr
“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.
Match15 Aug 2026
A 1‑1 draw with RoPS leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Jere Koponen 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.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Yohan Cassubie has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around FC Lahti they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market10 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at FC Lahti, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market10 Aug 2026
FC Lahti say no — this time
The offer from KTP for Romaric Yapi 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 24 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Diogo Tomás 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 FC Lahti this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Topias Inkinen again, and this time the name on the line is KTP. FC Lahti are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad10 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Neemias
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Neemias, and the manager let it.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Diogo Tomás
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. FC Lahti will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
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Triumph
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.
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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. FC Lahti have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Aatu Hakala and FC Lahti agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Aatu Hakala 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 FC Lahti this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match1 Aug 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Neemias’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to FC Lahti.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.79 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Aatu Hakala 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.42 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.