The FC Lahti Post
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Joel Lehtonen
Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Yohan Cassubie signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Yohan Cassubie and FC Lahti agree another 4 years.
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at FC Lahti training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Armend Kabashi is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match1 Aug 2026
FC Lahti rescue it on 92 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 92. IFK Mariehamn had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months and counting on Yohan Cassubie
Still no offer on the table, and Yohan Cassubie’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at FC Lahti
14 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Miller Bacca is in the works
FC Lahti have made the call to Junior. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
FC Lahti ask about Oscar Buur
A loan enquiry to FC Copenhagen: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
In brief
- Player ratings Daniel Heikkinen gives it away
- Match FC Lahti and IFK Mariehamn take a point apiece
- The dugout Leo Hamalainen on the point